Call for Participation: RE'09 Workshop Collaboration and Intercultural Issues on Requirements Communication, Understanding and Softskills (CIRCUS)

[Christian Lescher]

Call for Participation:

Collaboration and Intercultural Issues on Requirements:
Communication, Understanding and Softskills (CIRCUS)

Workshop in conjunction with: 17th IEEE International
Requirements Engineering Conference RE'09 (www.re09.org)
August 31, 2009 - Atlanta, Georgia, USA

http://www.re-circus.de

Register now at: http://www.re09.org

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*** Workshop Overview and Planned Agenda ***

The CIRCUS workshop focuses on multi-site collaboration and
intercultural
issues on requirements and how to deal with them. Interactive sessions
provide a forum for discussion of best practices, lessons learned and
experience exchange.

Morning session:

- Using FLOW to Improve Communication of Requirements in Globally
Distributed Software Projects
(K. Stapel, E. Knauss, K. Schneider)

- Investigating Collaboration Driven by Requirements in Cross-
Functional
Software Teams
(S. Marczak, I. Kwan, D. Damian)

- Mini-Tutorial:
What Did You Say? Intercultural Expectations, Misunderstandings, and
Communications
(F. Zarndt)

Afternoon session:

- Requirements-Gathering Collaborative Networks in Distributed
Software
Projects
(P. Laurent, J. Cleland-Huang)

- Soft Skills REquired: A Practical Approach on How to Introduce Soft
Skills in the Engineering World
(B. Penzenstadler, G. Haller, G. Frenzel, T. Schlosser)

- Interactive Session:
Knowledge Exchange using Large Group Intervention Methodology
(A. Hoffmann, C. Lescher)

A summary of the workshop is planned to be published in a journal.


*** Organizers of the Workshop ***

Christian Lescher and Anne Hoffmann, Siemens AG
E-Mail: mailto:in...@re-circus.de


*** Program Committee ***

- Matthew Bass, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Brian Berenbach, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
- Bernd Bruegge, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada
- Olly Gotel, Pace University, USA
- Anne Hoffmann, Siemens AG, Germany
- Lise Hvatum, Schlumberger, USA
- Christian Lescher, Siemens AG, Germany
- Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
- Anil Kumar Thurimella, Harman Becker Automotive Systems, Germany
- Ruediger Weissbach, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany


*** Registration ***

Register now at http://www.re09.org. Early registration fees apply to
registrations made before July 20th, 2009. The CIRCUS workshop can
also be booked independently from the main conference.


PDF is available at: http://www.re-circus.de/circus-cfp-agenda.pdf