Requirements Engineering Supporting Technical Product Management," in School of Engineering

to my father, the most decent man I know, to my mother, always thinking about everyone else, to my sister, for all the support and love, to my Cecilia, for inspiring me to be a better man ii iii Market-Driven Requirements Engineering (MDRE) handles the continuous flow of requirements in an engineering effort, and is not limited to a development instance but part of technical prod-uct management as a whole. The market-driven environment generates large amounts of re-quirements from multiple sources, internal and external, threatening to overload the technical management of products. MDRE involves requirements analysis, resource estimation, prioritiza-tion, and ultimately release planning. These activities allow for effectively deciding which cus-tomers get what features and quality at what point in time, making the accuracy and efficiency of MDRE a major determinant of the success of a product