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Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems
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Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems

by Phillip A. Laplante
March 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
264 pages
7h 40m
English
CRC Press
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186 Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems
A Case Study: FBI Virtual Case File
We close this chapter with a brief case study involving the U.S. Federal Bureau
of Investigations disastrous Virtual Case File system, which was a failure of
requirements management, among other things. is discussion is largely based
on Goldstein’s report of the project (2005). Begun in 2000, the Virtual Case File
(VCF) was supposed to automate the FBI’s paper-based work environment and
allow agents and intelligence analysts to share investigative information. e sys-
tem would also replace the obsolete Automated Case Support (ACS), which was
based on 1970s software technology. But the five years and $170 million the project
spent yielded only 700,0 ...
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ISBN: 9781420064681