Defining Global Requirements
Effectively Collect, Describe and Manage Multilingual Software Project Requirements

9am - 5pm : Friday, May 27, 2005

Welcome and Introduction

• Who's who?
• What do we want from this workshop?

Globalization Issues

• Globalization concepts
  • Overview of Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, Translation
• Internationalization model
  • Graphical model
  • Internationalization
  • Resource externalization
  • Cultural generalization

Requirement Basics

• Product Lifecycle Strategies
• Requirement Types
• Requirement Examples
• Requirement Workflow

Decision Making and Decision Makers

• Process Environments
• Decision Maker Roles
• Requirement Classification
• Requirement Scope Designation

Requirements Workflow

• Purpose of Internationalization Testing
• Life of a requirement
• Before and after globalization
• State models
• Examples

Requirement Elicitation

• Requirement set framework
• Community
• Perspective
• Focus
• Globalized framework
• Elicitation Techniques
  • Interviewing
  • Questionnaire
  • Observation
  • Document study
  • Prototyping

Requirement Elaboration

• Use cases
• Scenarios
• Tabular forms
• Feature list
• Localization scope
• Quality factors
• Planguage

Software Engineering Workflow

• Globalization effect on development phases
• Globalization effect on development workflows

Getting Started

• Steps to implement Globalization requirement management