Name of the participant: Christian Oleff
Description of the IT research project: Today’s development projects are characterized by a high degree of complexity, dynamics and uncertainty. New insights, agile approaches and changing conditions require a continuous adaptation of the development goals.
Such adjustments cause delays and high costs, especially in late stages of development, and are a central cause of project failures. One reason for the serious consequences is that without a holistic perspective on the system, the risks of requirements changes are underestimated and inefficiently managed. This is especially true for complex interdisciplinary systems.
ARCA addresses two efficiency potentials of interdisciplinary development projects:
- Front Loading: By focusing on requirements instead of solution elements, change risks can be identified in early development phases and handled with minimum effort.
- Interdisciplinary information and communication basis: A high degree of automation enables the processing of extensive and interdisciplinary sets of requirements. In addition, a proactive, systematic integration of all specialist disciplines can prevent inefficiencies caused by “silo thinking” and enable a holistic identification, evaluation and control of change risks.
The ARCA project pursues three overarching objectives in order to exploit these two efficiency potentials:
- Development of an approach for the automated analysis of requirements dependencies.
- Development of a method for the cross-disciplinary assessment and handling of the risk of change of requirements in the corporate context.
- Implementation and validation of a software prototype for the application of the method at IAV GmbH.
Software Campus partners: Universität Paderborn, IAV
Implementation period: 01/2020 – 12/2021