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Card Sorts to Acquire Requirements
May/June 2009 (vol. 26 no. 3)
pp. 85-86
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Neil Maiden, "Card Sorts to Acquire Requirements," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 85-86, May/June, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2009.59,
author = {Neil Maiden},
title = {Card Sorts to Acquire Requirements},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {26},
number = {3},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2009},
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doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2009.59},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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Neil Maiden, City University London
Requirements authors and trainers recommend numerous acquisition techniques, yet most requirements projects use just a few. This column presents a different technique, card sorts. More and more projects need to acquire requirements to select between available solutions. This is where card sorts come in.

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Index Terms:
requirements; requirements acquisition; card sort
Citation:
Neil Maiden, "Card Sorts to Acquire Requirements," IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 85-86, May-June 2009, doi:10.1109/MS.2009.59
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