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              CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                       GREW'07

                 1st International
           Global Requirements Engineering
                      Workshop

              http://www.bth.se/grew07 (program, updates etc)

--- Early registration: 9th of June, see http://www.icgse.org
<http://www.icgse.org/> ---

To be held in conjunction with:

ICGSE 2007: International Conference on Global Software Engineering

2007 Munich, Germany, August 27-30, 2007

Detailed CfParticipation in PDF format:

<http://www.bth.se/tek/grew07.nsf/pages/40233D3BA36FC24AC12572F0003F2C1D/$FILE/GREW07%20-%20CFParticipation.pdf>

Program:

<http://www.bth.se/tek/grew07.nsf/pages/9CBFD41F7D48725CC12572ED00286358/$FILE/GREW07_WS_Program.pdf>

Distributed multi-site software product development is increasingly becoming
commonplace as companies become global not only in terms of customer base,
but also with regards to large parts of the software product development
that is spread over continents and cultures. Distribution is driven by that
it enables companies to leverage their resources, and to draw on the
advantage of proximity to customers and markets during large-scale software
development.

The potential opportunities, however, come with new challenges for the
product planning, management and development organizations of a
company that
affect requirements engineering of software products. The threat of defect
increase and overruns in multi-site development has been documented in
literature. According to industry experience reports, some of the main
problems are attributed to heterogeneous understanding of requirements and
substantial differences in domain understanding and interpretation.
This is
compounded by the fact that multi-site development usually is detrimental to
informal communication between stakeholders such as product managers,
experts, and developers, as these roles are often separated geographically

The goals of this workshop is to identify, report, discuss, and
address the
challenges associated with requirements engineering (RE) and product
management (PM) from two main perspectives:

(i) PM/RE for Global Software Development - assuring that the handling of
requirements and products are effective and efficient in relation to a
global/distributed development environment where development is conducted
over multiple sites, and

(ii) Distributed PM/RE - the activities associated with PM and/or RE are
conducted globally over multiple sites, and the development may be conducted
in one single site or distributed around any number of sites.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:

The workshop will feature three sessions with seven papers presented. The
workshop papers include submissions from both, industry and academia. There
will be ample space for discussions on the session topics and the papers
presented.

The session PRODUCT LINES FOR GLOBAL MARKETS addresses the definition, use
and evolution of product lines in a multi-site distributed environment.

The session GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION addresses requirements
engineering and release planning in a distributed organization and the
effects of factors like distance, communication mode and organizational
structure on activities like negotiations and maintaining awareness of
requirements.

The session CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING:
CONSEQUENCES FOR
RESEARCH discusses challenges of distributed requirements engineering that
have been elicited from IT professionals to build a basis for shaping future
research in the global requirements engineering area.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Camera-ready papers due: July 27, 2007

Early Registration deadline: June 9, 2007 (www.icgse.org)

Workshop: August 27, 2007

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

• Tony Gorschek, organizing chair (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

• Ayb=FCke Aurum (University of New South Wales, Australia)

• Christof Ebert (Vector Consulting, Germany)

• Samuel Fricker (ABB, Switzerland and University of Zurich, Switzerland)

• Conny Johansson (Ericsson, Sweden)

• Claes Wohlin (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in alphabetical order):

• Ayse Bener (Bo=F0azi=E7i University, Turkey)

• Maya Daneva (University of Twente, the Netherlands)

• Alan M. Davis (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA)

• Robert Feldt (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

• Samuel Fricker (ABB, Switzerland and University of Zurich, Switzerland)

• Paul Gr=FCnbacher (Johannes Kepler Universit=E4t (JKU) Linz, Austria)

• Gerald Heller (Hewlett-Packard, Germany)

• Andrea Herrmann (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

• Ann M. Hickey (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA)

• Natalia Juristo (Universidad Polit=E9cnica de Madrid, Spain)

• Irwin Kwan (University of Victoria, Canada)

• Filippo Lanubile (University of Bari, Italy)

• Marek Leszak (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany)

• Sabrina Marczak (University of Victoria, Canada)

• Michael Mattsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

• Audris Mockus (Avaya Labs Research, USA)

• Michael Ochs (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)

• Peter Sawyer (Lancaster University, UK)

• Darja Smite (University of Latvia, Latvia)

• Giancarlo Succi (Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy)

• Richard Torkar (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)