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A Case Study on Benefits and Side-Effects of Agile Practices in Large-Scale Requirements Engineering

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Summary, in English

In the software industry, there is a strong shift from traditional phase-based development towards agile methods and practices. This paper reports on a case study aimed at investigating if, and how, agile Requirements Engineering (RE) can remedy the challenges of traditional RE, and what new challenges agile RE may pose. The results from an initial case study with 9 practitioners from a large software development company, which is transitioning towards agile-inspired processes, show that agile practices address some RE challenges such as communication gaps and overscoping, but also cause new challenges, such as striking a good balance between agility and stability, and ensuring sufficient competence in cross-functional development teams.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Publication/Series

[Host publication title missing]

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Topic

  • Computer Science

Keywords

  • Requirements/Specification - methodologies
  • Management
  • Documentation
  • Human Factors

Conference name

First workshop on Agile Requirements Engineering

Conference date

2011-07-26

Conference place

Lancaster, United Kingdom

Status

Published