About Ian Alexander

I am a Systems Engineer specialising in Requirements Engineering. I am a Chartered Engineer and an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow of City University. My work includes:

• Requirements Engineering Consultancy for organisations using systems and software of all kinds. This includes eliciting, writing, and managing requirements, preparing and running workshops and reviews, working on business processes, and conducting process audits.
• Preparing and delivering Workshops, Seminars, and Training Courses in Requirements and Systems Engineering to many organisations. I am a qualified instructor for the Atlantic Systems Guild's 3-Day Mastering the Requirements Process, for JBA's Systems Engineering course and Requirements Engineering workshop, and for Telelogic's Requirements Engineering, DOORS, & DXL courses.
• Requirements research on practical topics including stakeholder analysis, negative scenarios, requirements reuse, prioritisation and industrial practice, with results published in peer-reviewed & published articles.
• Service to the Engineering community, organising public events and training courses for
  • BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group,
  • IET Professional Network for Systems Engineers.
• Presenting seminars and workshops at universities and colleges including Imperial College, the Open University, City University, the University of Westminster, and Lancaster University.
• Writing books on requirements.
• Numerous book reviews on requirements, systems and software engineering, and related topics.

I speak French, German, and Swedish and have some Greek, Malay, and Italian.