Design Thinking for Requirements Engineering (internal)

Given the increasing challenges that arise in the development of innovative, software-intensive products, we systematically integrated Design Thinking (DT) with Software Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches in a collaboration with the University of St. Gallen and ITMP. The goal of DT4RE, lead by Jennifer Hehn, was to actively share knowledge and experiences, and to foster the dialog between practitioners and researchers from both communities (RE and DT) via a method tool box including practical methods, templates, and step-by-step tutorials.

Practical Relevance of RE Research (internal)

The goal of the project RE Pract, jointly lead together with Xavier Franch from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain, was to identify the topics and areas of future research (or fine-tune existing ones) in RE. To this end, we studied the perceived practical relevance of RE research outcomes by providing industry participants with the possibility to add their own views and flavours regarding current research in RE. This allowed to discover the lines of current research that are more promising for practitioners.

Simple Secure Sprints (fortiss)

The goal of the project, jointly conducted with Jan Passoth from the Technical University of Munich and in cooperation with Siemens Corporate Technology, was to integrate security-relevant aspects into large-scale agile software development methodologies. To this end, we studied practices, possibilities, and barriers affecting the integration of security-relevant artefacts and methods into the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The long-term goal was to adopt the method framework in compliance with the IEC 62443-4-1 in a way facilitating a rule-based agile secure software development for non-experts in security based on checklists.

Collaborative Embedded Systems (fortiss)

The goal of the project on Collaborative Embedded Systems (CrESt), funded by DLR/BMBF and having 22 partners from academia and industry, was the development of a comprehensive framework for the model-based development of collaborative embedded systems tackling engineering challenges arising from the development of interconnected systems (with a particular focus on systems’ architectures) in dynamic contexts.

Non-functional Requirements for Model-Driven Development (TUM)

This project constituted a research collaboration between 20 researchers from 8 countries. The goal of this project was to survey industrial practices on the integration of non-functional requirements (NFR) and model-driven development (MDD), called NFR4MDD.

ZD.B Task Force (TUM)

The goal of the ZD.B task force was to support the founding president in the preparation of the launch of the Bavarian Centre for Digitisation. I was responsible for conceptualising the funding programmes for junior research groups and the state-wide Bavarian graduate school.

IT Governance Bayern with the Bavarian Government (TUM)

IT Governance Bayern was a competence center established for a long-term cooperation with further research groups of the TUM and the Bavarian Ministry of Finance, IT department 1. We investigated different research areas in IT governance in the public sector with a particular focus on enterprise architecture management, service-oriented architectures, and the management of IT development projects in those domains. The overall goal was the development the Bavarian IT strategy for the public sector.

Investigation of the Interplay between Business and Requirements Engineering with Siemens CT (TUM)

The research cooperation with Siemens Corporate Technology aimed at the investigation of the interplay between Business, Requirements Engineering, and (solution-driven) Engineering disciplines. The project aimed, in particular, at exploring what phenomena exist, how they relate to each other in (multi-)project environments, and how RE could be efficiently be integrated.

Artefact-based Requirements Engineering Optimisation with Daimler (TUM)

The goal of this project was the identification of potential fields of optimisations in using model-baesd Requirements Engineering to support seamless modelling in the development of software-intensive systems in the automotive sector. To this end, we applied a set of empirical methods as part of a RE improvement framework developed at the research group to conduct a qualitative process analysis and to steer the further development of the RE process in direct response to company-specific goals and problems.

Artefact-based Requirements Engineering Optimisation with Wacker (TUM)

The goal of this project was the implementation of a continuous process improvement approach for Requirements Engineering of software-intensive systems in the chemical sector. One instance application included the the seamless integration of Requirements Engineering and analytical and constructive quality assurance.

Model-based Process Enactment with Siemens (TUM)

The goal of this project was to empirically analyse, conceptually establish, and implement the linkage between development proces models and their instances to support for the management, controlling, and continuous process enactments.

Requirements Engineering and Optimisation with Deutsche Lufthansa AG (TUM)

The goal of the project concerned improvements of Requirements Engineering at the case of the Deutschen Lufthansa AG (DLH) with a particular focus on large-scale systems with units to change business logic rules at runtime. An analysis included the standard reference model for Requirements Engineering and the Requirements Engineering process performed in an exemplary software development project.

Requirements Engineering Solution 6 with Siemens (TUM)

The project represented a case study hosted by Siemens in which the artefact-based RE approach VM BISA (for the application domain of business information systems / see also Quasar Requirements) was adopted and evaluated for development projects of hybrid systems in the mobility sector.

RE School with Capgemini Technology Services (TUM)

Quasar Requirements is an artefact-based RE approach being developed in a research cooperation with Capgemini Technology Services. The approach was integrated into the architecture framework of Capgemini sd&m (Quasar). The project aimed at the definition of training material for (chief) analysts, architects, and management-specific roles.

Quasar Requirements with Capgemini Technology Services (TUM)

The development of Quasar Requirements was performed in cooperation with Capgemini Technology Services with the goal to develop the company-wide artefact-based reference model for Requirements Engineering for custom software development projects in the domain of business information systems. It incorporates the company-specific architecture principles of Quasar Enterprise and the Capgemini Integrated Architecture Framework, and is integrated into the company-specific development process model, a variant of the Rational Unified Process.

SOA@Innovation Labs with the SOA Innovation Labs and the Deutsche Post (TUM)

The project aims at the definition and evaluation of a semantic foundation of the basic concepts used in the area of service-oriented architecture in a cooperation with the SOA Innovation Labs in general and the Deutsche Post in particular. To reach this aim, the project was performed over two stages. First, an integrated modelling theory of the research group is completed for functional concepts used in process modelling, service modelling and the inference of a logical component architecture. The theory is defined via mathematical models referring to the FOCUS theory. In a second step, a case study was conducted in which we assessed the modelling theory in direct comparison to given modelling techniques developed by the Deutsche Post.