Seeking Insights: How Is AI Reshaping Requirements Engineering

Greetings from Colorado!

I’m conducting research for a forthcoming submission to MIS Quarterly Executive, exploring how AI is reshaping our ability to gather, manage, and align software requirements with organizational strategy — across companies, agencies, boards, and commissions.

The focus is a familiar challenge — in fact, the core of my doctoral dissertation: the tension between high-quality technical implementation and the persistent gap in delivering effective business outcomes. That tension is becoming more complex as AI accelerates development timelines and alters how requirements are surfaced and interpreted.

I’m seeking 6–10 IT leaders or application developers for 30–45 minute interviews. I’m especially interested in your perspectives on how AI tools are being used to augment, refine, or even replace! the articulation of user requirements. Are these tools acting as proxies for subject matter experts? Are they improving clarity or introducing new gaps in our alignment efforts?

I recently read a piece noting that up to 70% of data used in marketing research is now synthetic or AI-generated. It raised a provocative question: How far are we from AI-generated requirements becoming the norm in development?

The final paper will offer practical, evidence-based recommendations for IT leaders and may be featured in the MISQE Special Issue on “AI in the Enterprise” later this year. I’ll know when I attend their conference this fall: ICIS 2025 | An AIS Conference.

If you’re open to participating — or can recommend someone in your organization who would be a strong fit — I’d be grateful. Please feel free to share this post with colleagues as well. Or if you’ll be attending that conference in Nashville, let me know that as well!

Thanks, as always, for supporting collaboration and shared insight across our community. I welcome any questions or feedback.