TY - GEN A1 - Thurimella, Anil Kumar A1 - Schubanz, Mathias A1 - Pleuss, Andreas A1 - Botterweck, Goetz T1 - Guidelines for Managing Requirements Rationales T2 - IEEE Software N2 - Requirements are identified and elaborated on the basis of stakeholders' decisions. The reasoning behind those decisions can be expressed as rationales. Systematic rationale management offers both short-term benefits, such as clearer requirements leading to fewer defects, and long-term benefits, such as simplified requirements evolution. However, little guidance exists for managing requirements rationales. This article presents guidelines to pragmatically capture, trace, maintain, and reuse such rationales. A list of questions augments the guidelines, improving their usability. KW - Stakeholders KW - Requirements engineering KW - Organizations KW - Software engineering KW - Systematics Y1 - 2019 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-UBICO/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23390 UR - https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2017/01/mso2017010082-abs.html SN - 0740-7459 SN - 1937-4194 VL - 34 IS - 1 SP - 82 EP - 90 ER -