Joint Meeting of the Los Angeles Chapter of
ACM
and the
Special Interest Group in Programming Languages (SIGPLAN)
Wednesday, November 4, 1998
Experiences with the WinWin Groupware System
Alexander Egyed, University of Southern California
The talk will present the WinWin system which is supporting the definition of software-based applications as negotiated stakeholder win conditions. (The Editor understands this to be a system that assists in the remote specification and negotiation of contracts for software systems.) Our experience in using WinWin in defining over 30 library systems, including several groupware systems, shows that it is important to supplement negotiation support systems (such as WinWin) with such capabilities as prototyping, tradeoff analysis tools, email, and videoconferencing.
We also found that WinWin's concern for the win conditions of other parties has enabled stakeholders to achieve high levels of shared vision and mutual trust. Our subsequent experience in implementing the specified library systems in a rapidly changing Web-based milieu indicated that achieving these social conditions among system stakeholders was more important than obtaining precise requirements specifications, due to the need for team adaptability to changing requirements. Further, we found that the WinWin approach provides an effective set for methods of integrating ethical considerations into practical system definition processes via Rawls' stakeholder negotiation-based Theory of Justice.
The talk is approximately the paper presented at the recent IFIPS Conference in Vienna by Prof. Barry Boehm and the speaker .
Alexander Egyed is a PhD student at the Center for Software Engineering at the University of Southern California. His research interests are in software architecture and requirements elicitation. He received a Dipl.-Ing. in Informatics from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria and a MS in Computer Science from USC.
Papers which may be of interest for attendees:
"Telecooperation Experience with the WinWin System" http://sunset.usc.edu/TechRpts/Papers/usccse98-507/usccse98-507.pdf
"Using the WinWin Spiral Model: A Case Study" http://sunset.usc.edu/TechRpts/Papers/usccse98-512/usccse98-512.pdf
"Conceptual Modeling Challenges for Model-Based Architecting and Software Engineering (MBASE)" http://sunset.usc.edu/TechRpts/Papers/usccse98-513/usccse98-513.pdf
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