The initial step in The
Design Requirements Project will be to interview leading practitioners
from a variety of industries regarding their current practices,
challenges, emerging trends, and future expectations associated with
design requirements. The results of these interviews are expected
to inform the Delphi study and the workshop dialog.
Interviewees include executives, managers, developers, and engineers
from the following broad industrial cross-sections:
- Large Complex Systems
- typically involving large-scale logistical or communications network
issues
- Embedded Systems
- electromechanical systems of all sorts that involve embedded software
components (examples: cars, airplanes, consumer electronics, mobile
device, ATMs)
- Software Applications -
software developed for consumer or business end-user computing
(examples: productivity tools, e-business, web-based business models)
- Middleware
Vendors - software developed to support applications
away from general end-use (examples: databases, back office
tools, web integration)
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Media Companies - delivery of consumer content (example:
movie and music industry, publishing, consulting reports)
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Organization Design - technology-enabled management of complex
organizations
To download a PDF version of the interview protocol,
click here.
