The “City Requirements” Consultancy
City Requirements offers advanced consultancy services for your requirements activities, with particular support for socio-technical systems that involve the specification of human and computer-based activities.
Our services include:
- Acquiring requirements from stakeholders;
- Inventing requirements using creativity workshops, techniques and tools;
- Running requirements workshops;
- Discovering requirements by walking through scenarios;
- Writing measurable requirements that are testable;
- Modelling system goals and goal trade-offs;
- Specifying requirements using UML use cases;
- Validating specified requirements using scenarios;
- Managing different groups of stakeholders;
- Producing requirements documents and specifications;
- Online project support for requirements activities;
- Requirements training courses;
- Tailoring requirements processes to your project.
If you need other services, please talk to us – see Contact Details
Resources
- RESCUE - a process for specifying requirements of socio-technical systems;
- ART-SCENE - a tool for automatically generating scenarios from use case specifications and walking through scenarios to discover requirements;
- CRIS - a tool that supports creative thinking and invention of new requirements;
- REDEPEND - a tool for system-wide goal modelling and analysis;
- UCaRE - a web-based tool for online specification of requirements and use cases;
- EDDiE - for retrieving web services that satisfy specified requirements;
- AnTiQue - a tool for retrieving web services that are analogical to specified requirements.
Consulting Collaborations
- The Atlantic Systems Guild
- Ian Alexander Consultancy
Past projects
- CORA-2 - Requirement specification for en-route conflict resolution assistant: client was Eurocontrol;
- DMAN - Requirement specification for departure management system for major European airports: client was Eurocontrol;
- MSP - Requirement specification for multi-sector planning for route-to-route flight management in European airspace: client was Eurocontrol;
- EASM - Requirement specification for enhanced airspace management in UK airspace: client was NATS;
- VANTAGE - Requirements specification for airport operations to minimize environmental impact at Belfast City Airport: client was UK Department of Trade and Industry;
- APOSDLE - Requirement specification for work-integrated learning systems; client was European Commission;
- TRACEBACK - Requirement specification for Europe-wide food information traceability systems: client was European Commission;
- CAIT - Analysis of new software for airspace infringement detection on safety-related system goals; client was NATS;
- Engine control systems - Pilot requirements process to discover requirements for engine control systems: client was Rolls Royce.
Requirements staff
Our requirements staff have extensive experience in requirements work, and include:
Consultancy options
Consultancy support is available for short activities lasting 1 or 2 days, such as a requirements workshop, and for longer activities such as supporting the complete requirements process for a project.
Contact details
Prof Neil Maiden
Centre for HCI Design
City University London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB, UK
Tel: +44-20-7040-8412
Fax: +44-20-7040-8859
E-mail: N.A.M.Maiden@city.ac.uk
Ms Monica Ferraro
Centre for HCI Design
City University London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB, UK
Tel: +44-20-7040-8427
Fax: +44-20-7040-8859
E-mail: Monicaf@soi.city.ac.uk