Supporting and monitoring the creativity of IS personnel during the requirements engineering process

Can Requirements Be Creative? Experiences with an Enhanced Air Space Management System

“…Such requirements are often not properties that a stakeholder would ask for directly. Nguyen et al [14] observed that teams restructured requirements models at critical points when they re-conceptualize and solve subproblems, triggered by moments of sudden insight. Mich et al [13] report the successful use of the elementary pragmatic model from communication theory in a controlled environment to trigger combinatorial creativity during requirements acquisition.…”

A framework for understanding creativity in requirements engineering

“…Creative thinking in RE is crucial in creating new visions and discovering requirements for future information systems [73,33]. Second, recent research has highlighted the highly creative and insight-driven nature of the RE process and described the creative RE process as consisting of the structured building and insight-driven restructuring of requirements models [55,60]. Others have utilised creativity techniques to support creative thinking during the RE process [49].…”

Applying a pragmatics-based creativity-fostering technique to requirements elicitation

“…Besides those that recognize creativity as a fundamental factor in software development [2,28,32,41,42,43], there are those that see creativity as a threat, as something to monitor and control carefully in order to prevent it from compromising their projects [44]. That is, new requirement ideas discovered after implementation has started can be very expensive to accommodate and are often not appreciated by the implementers.…”