“…Requirements elicitation (RE) is widely accepted as critical to the front-end of new product development and involves learning, defining, uncovering, extracting, discovering, acquiring and elaborating on the needs of customers, end-users, and other potential stakeholders (Darke and Shanks, 1997;Cooper et al, 1999;Hickey and Davis, 2004;Zowghi and Coulin, 2005;Coulin et al, 2006;Gambhir, 2001;Pitts and Browne, 2007;Dieste et al, 2008;Laporti et al, 2009;Fuentes-Fernández et al, 2010). However, participation of stakeholders in RE is a practice that has to deal with three important challenges: stakeholder uncertainty and inability to communicate needs, evolving requirements during the life of projects and poor information gathering techniques applied by analysts (Flynn and Jazi, 1998;Blyth, 1998;Pitts and Browne, 2007).…”