Despite its success over the last 30 years, the field of Requirements Engineering (RE) is still
experiencing fundamental problems that indicate a need for a change of focus to better
ground its research on issues underpinning current practices. We posit that these practices
have changed significantly in recent years. To this end we explore changes in software
system operational environments, targets, and the process of RE. Our explorations include a
field study, as well as two workshops that brought together experts from academia and …