Requirements Engineering for Global Systems: Cultural, Regulatory and Technical Aspects
This addresses the problem of ensuring compliance and consistency in global system development for organizations operating across multiple countries, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing requirements engineering methods.
The paper tackles the challenge of managing diverse and interdependent requirements in global systems due to varying cultural and regulatory constraints, by presenting a formal framework for analysis and optimization to avoid non-compliance and contradictions.
In this paper we present a formal framework for analysis and optimisation of the requirements specifications of systems developed to apply in several countries. As different countries typically have different regulations/laws as well as different cultural restrictions, the corresponding specific requirements might differ in each particular case. Our framework provides a basis for (1) systematic and formal analysis of the diversity and interdependencies within the sets of the requirements, to avoid non-compliance, contradictions and redundancies; (2) corresponding systematic process for change management in the case of global system development.