Making it all up Aug 2010

From Requirements Engineering Specialist Group

Making It All Up: Getting In On The Act to Improvise Creative Requirements

Date

2pm-4pm, Tuesday 10th August 2010

Venue

City University London

Details
Presented by:

• Martin Mahaux and Patrick Heymans, PReCISE Research Centre, University of Namur, Belgium
• Neil Maiden, Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City University London

This mini-tutorial proposes participants a fun and refreshing learning moment.

Through actually playing improvisational theatre games in groups themselves, participants will be given the chance to feel what it takes to innovate in teams,and will learn new ways to generate creative ideas when eliciting requirements. The tutorial is limited to a maximum of 12 people.

Martin Mahaux is a researcher at the PReCISE group of FUNDP (University Namur). He practised 5 years as a RE consultant, in various sectors such as pharmaceutics, public administrations, financial institutions, logistics, utilities... Improv entered his life 8 years ago. He presented the foundations of applying improv to RE at the Requirements Engineering Education and Training workshop (REET) of the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference in Delhi 2007 (RE'07). Before that, and since then, he gave improv based sessions to 15+ groups in various companies, in the same variety of sectors as cited above. He co-authored with Neil Maiden an article in the IEEE Software's Requirements Column on this subject, and wrote a guest piece on the same in Alexander and Beus-Dukic last book on Discovering Requirements.

Neil Maiden is Professor of Systems Engineering and Head of the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design at City University, as well as head of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice. He has been directing inter-disciplinary research in requirements engineering for 15 years and has worked on numerous EPSRC- and EU-funded research projects including SeCSE, MIRROR, CHOReOS, SIMP, NATURE, CREWS, BANKSEC, SeCSE, APOSDLE and TRACEBACK. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in journals, conferences and workshops. He is the Editor of the IEEE Software's Requirements column. Neil has been a co-presenter of half-day tutorials on this topic at ICSE 2006 in Shanghai, the IEEE International Requirements Engineering conferences in 2002 (RE'02, Essen Germany), 2005 (RE'05, Paris France) and 2008 (Barcelona, Catalonia), the British Computer Society Requirements Engineering Specialist Group (RESG) meeting in 2003 (London UK) and mini-SPA tutorial in 2005 (London UK). He has also facilitated 12 creativity workshops, each lasting 1-2 days, for major clients over 4-year period, also described in Tutorial Provenance section.

To book a place on this course, or for further information, please e-mail Fiona MacDonald on fionam@soi.city.ac.uk. There is no charge for the mini-tutorial.

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