For many years, research results in requirements engineering (RE) have been developed without much interaction with, or impact on, industrial practice. Why is it so difficult to introduce RE research results into mainstream RE practice? This paper attempts to provide answers to this question by describing obstacles that researchers and practitioners have encountered when they attempted technology transfer. In addition, major incentives for using RE methods are discussed, along with ideas for improving current RE practice. The paper summarises, clarifies and extends the results of two panel discussions, one at the Twelfth Conference on Advanced information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’00) and the other at the Fourth IEEE Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE’00).
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Kaindl, H., Brinkkemper, S., Bubenko Jr, J. et al. Requirements Engineering and Technology Transfer: Obstacles, Incentives and Improvement Agenda. Requirements Eng 7, 113–123 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007660200008
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s007660200008