Impact of Organisational Culture on the Requirement Engineering Activities

Abstract

Requirement Engineering (RE) is a socio-technical activity and it demands intensive communication with the stake-holders to elicit and model all requirements. As both national and organisational cultures influence the behaviour of the individuals and their work practices, they might also influence RE activities deeply. We propose an extension to a formal framework for identifying and analysing cultural influences that could impact RE activities: the aim is to apply the framework not only on the national culture level, but expand it to the level of organisational culture to provide a more nuanced approach.