City Requirements
City Requirements offers advanced consultancy services for your requirements activities, with particular support for socio-technical systems that involve the specification of human and computer-based activities.
Our services include:
• Acquiring requirements from stakeholders;
• Inventing requirements using creativity workshops, techniques and tools;
• Running requirements workshops;
• Discovering requirements by walking through scenarios;
• Writing measurable requirements that are testable;
• Modelling system goals and goal trade-offs;
• Specifying requirements using UML use cases;
• Validating specified requirements using scenarios;
• Managing different groups of stakeholders;
• Producing requirements documents and specifications;
• Online project support for requirements activities;
• Requirements training courses;
• Tailoring requirements processes to your project.
Resources
• RESCUE - a process for specifying requirements of socio-technical systems;
• ART-SCENE - a tool for automatically generating scenarios from use case specifications and walking through scenarios to discover requirements;
• CRIS - a tool that supports creative thinking and invention of new requirements;
• REDEPEND - a tool for system-wide goal modelling and analysis;
• UCaRE - a web-based tool for online specification of requirements and use cases;
• EDDiE - for retrieving web services that satisfy specified requirements;
• AnTiQue - a tool for retrieving web services that are analogical to specified requirements.
Consulting Collaborations
• The Atlantic Systems Guild
• Ian Alexander Consultancy
Past projects
• CORA-2 - Requirement specification for en-route conflict resolution assistant: client was Eurocontrol;
• DMAN - Requirement specification for departure management system for major European airports: client was Eurocontrol;
• MSP - Requirement specification for multi-sector planning for route-to-route flight management in European airspace: client was Eurocontrol;
• EASM - Requirement specification for enhanced airspace management in UK airspace: client was NATS;
• VANTAGE - Requirements specification for airport operations to minimize environmental impact at Belfast City Airport: client was UK Department of Trade and Industry;
• APOSDLE - Requirement specification for work-integrated learning systems; client was European Commission;
• TRACEBACK - Requirement specification for Europe-wide food information traceability systems: client was European Commission;
• CAIT - Analysis of new software for airspace infringement detection on safety-related system goals; client was NATS;
• Engine control systems - Pilot requirements process to discover requirements for engine control systems: client was Rolls Royce.
Requirements staff
Our requirements staff have extensive experience in requirements work, and include:
• Neil Maiden
• Sara Jones
• Kristine Karlsen
• James Lockerbie
• Konstantinos Zachos
Consultancy options
Consultancy support is available for short activities lasting 1 or 2 days, such as a requirements workshop, and for longer activities such as supporting the complete requirements process for a project.
Contact details
Prof Neil Maiden
Centre for HCI Design
City University London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB, UK
Tel: +44-20-7040-8412
Fax: +44-20-7040-8859
E-mail: N.A.M.Maiden@city.ac.uk