  In light of the 40th jubilee of Requirements Engineering (RE), roughly 40
experts met in Switzerland to discuss where our discipline stands today. As of
today, the common view is, indisputably, that RE as a discipline is stable and
respected, as pointed out by Sarah Gregory when covering the seminar in her
column to which articles like this one are invited to present ongoing research.
However, it is also evident that after 40 years of promising research,
conducting research that industry needs is still an ongoing challenge. Research
that industry needs means research that solves industrial problems
practitioners face; but do we really understand those problems? Here, I want to
recapitulate on this research challenge and outline an initiative, the Naming
the Pain in Requirements Engineering Initiative, that aims at tackling this
problem.
