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Table 2.13: Scott & Wilson: top IS capabilitiesAttributeBeing willing to take responsibility for projects, includinghow they turn outBeing willing to face and learn from my errors and listenopenly to feedbackBeing able to develop and contribute positively to teambasedprojectsBeing able to diagnose what is really causing a problemand then test this out in actionThe ability to use previous experience to figure out whatis going on when a current situation takes an unexpectedturnCapability ScalePersonal AbilitiesPersonal AbilitiesInterpersonal AbilitiesIntellectual AbilitiesIntellectual Abilitiesthree months after the classes. It found that the training itself had little influence on adoptionof methods, but personal characteristics and organisational factors including managementsupport seemed to be of more importance. In addition, Gardner (1983, p 62)’s claima human intellectual competence must entail a set of skills of problem solving –enabling the individual to resolve genuine problems or difficulties that he or sheencounters and, when appropriate, to create an effective product – and must alsoentail the potential for finding or creating problems – thereby laying the groundworkfor the acquisition of new knowledgehas bearing for the discipline of RE.2.1.5 Summarising the RE practitioner perspectiveThe practitioner perspective may be summarised by this excerpt from RE-online (a discussionforum hosted at University of Technology Sydney) (Zowghi, 2004) by Firesmith, currentlywith the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) [my italics]30 May 2004 ...in factextremely few software engineers are qualified to perform requirements engineering.Almost everywhere I go in industry, whereas software engineershave significant training in programming languages and designmethods,they typically have no training (or very little training) in requirements engineering,40