Evaluating cross-organizational ERP requirements engineering practices: a focus group study

Maia Daneva; Niv Ahituv

doi:10.1109/RCIS.2010.5507387

Evaluating cross-organizational ERP requirements engineering practices: a focus group study

Maia Daneva, Niv Ahituv

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Abstract

This focus group study presents our first validation of practices for engineering the coordination requirements in cross-organizational Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects. The study evaluates 13 practices addressing a variety of coordination aspects crucial to ERP projects. These practices are results in previously published research publications by the first author. The practices are formulated in response to practitioners' needs at ERP adopting organizations. The proposed practices have now reached the stage where we need some independent feedback as to the extent to which they fit the realities of practitioners. We perform this validation by means of a qualitative research approach, namely the focus group method. Current software engineering literature provides few examples of using focus groups in the evaluation of good software development practices. Because of this, providing reflections on our focus-group-based validation experiences will be of value to both the research community and practitioners.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Fourth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2010)
Editors	P. Loucoloulos, J.L. Cavarero
Place of Publication	USA
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	279-286
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-4839-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2010.5507387
Publication status	Published - 14 May 2010
Event	4th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2010 - Nice, France Duration: 19 May 2010 → 21 May 2010 Conference number: 4

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Name
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society

Conference

Conference	4th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2010
Abbreviated title	RCIS
Country/Territory	France
City	Nice
Period	19/05/10 → 21/05/10

Keywords

IR-75200
METIS-275769
Focus Group Research
Requirements Engineering
SCS-Services
Empirical Evaluation
Good Practices
EWI-19059
Enterprise Resource Planning

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Daneva, M & Ahituv, N 2010, Evaluating cross-organizational ERP requirements engineering practices: a focus group study. in P Loucoloulos & JL Cavarero (eds), Fourth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2010). IEEE, USA, pp. 279-286, 4th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2010, Nice, France, 19/05/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2010.5507387

Evaluating cross-organizational ERP requirements engineering practices: a focus group study. / Daneva, Maia; Ahituv, Niv.
Fourth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2010). ed. / P. Loucoloulos; J.L. Cavarero. USA: IEEE, 2010. p. 279-286.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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