Stakeholder’s Training Process for GSD Based Requirements Elicitation Frameworks

The requirements elicitation frameworks define a systematic way of performing requirements elicitation tasks at pre-stages of the requirements engineering process. The requirements elicitation is a human-centered activity which critically depends upon the selection and training of the most appropriate stakeholders. The requirements elicitation process becomes challenging in global software development projects where stakeholders of the requirements elicitation process have high diversities in their geographical location, working time zones and local cultures. In such global software development scenarios, the need for the trainings of the involved stakeholders becomes most important aspect to create smoothness in the working setups. This article presents a stakeholder’s training process for global software development-based requirements elicitation frameworks to address the emergent need in software development industry. The proposed stakeholder’s training process provides a mechanism to comprehensively train requirements elicitation stakeholder’s about situational context and global software development context. The application of the proposed stakeholder’s training process in software development projects highlighted a significant improvement in the quality of the whole requirements elicitation process for global software development projects.