Defining Requirements Strategies inĀ Agile: A Design Science Research Study
Paper in proceeding, 2022

Research shows that many of the challenges currently encountered with agile development are related to requirements engineering. Based on design science research, this paper investigates critical challenges that arise in agile development from an undefined requirements strategy. We explore potential ways to address these challenges and synthesize the key building blocks of requirements strategies. Our design science research rests on a multiple case study with three industrial cases in the domains of communication technology, security services, and automotive. We relied on a total of 20 interviews, two workshops, participant observation in two cases, and document analysis in each of the cases to understand concrete challenges and workflows. In each case, we define a requirements strategy in collaboration with process managers and experienced engineers. From this experience, we extract guidelines for defining requirements strategies in agile development.

Large-scale agile development

requirements engineering

Design science research

Requirements strategy

Author

Amna Pir Muhammad

University of Gothenburg

Eric Knauss

University of Gothenburg

Odzaya Batsaikhan

University of Gothenburg

Nassiba El Haskouri

University of Gothenburg

Yi Chun Lin

University of Gothenburg

Alessia Knauss

Zenseact AB

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 13709 LNCS 73-89
9783031213878 (ISBN)

23rd International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2022
Jyväskylä, Finland,

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

Information Science

Information Systemes, Social aspects

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-21388-5_6

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10/25/2023