Overview + Globalization Issues

Workshop overview. Introduction to globalization concepts including internationalization and localization. Globalization model and checklists.

Introduction to requirement management basics. Product lifecycle strategies. Requirement types and requirement examples. Requirement workflow. Process environments. Identifying roles and responsibilities. Classification of requirements including scope and designation matrix.

Life of a requirement. Defining globalization workflow using state transition diagrams. Comparing workflow before and after globalization. Different alternatives and approaches are reviewed. Elicitation requirement set framework. Elicitation community, perspective and focus. Elicitation techniques, interviewing, questionnaires, observation, document study and prototyping.

Examples of how to state international requirements using several different popular approaches. Use cases, scenarios, tabular forms, feature lists, quality factors and planguage. Different software development lifecycle models. Status and requirement tracing.

What to do now? Identify key stakeholders and decision makers. Define workflow. Put requirement globalization into action: tools, templates, elicitation, prioritization, elaboration, development and testing. Continuously adapt to change. References.