A Conceptual Model of Client-driven Agile Requirements Prioritization: Results of a Case Study

Zornitza Racheva; Maia Daneva; Andrea Herrmann

doi:10.1145/1852786.1852837

A Conceptual Model of Client-driven Agile Requirements Prioritization: Results of a Case Study

Zornitza Racheva, Maia Daneva, Andrea Herrmann

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Abstract

Requirements (re)prioritization is an essential mechanism of agile development approaches to maximize the value for the clients and to accommodate changing requirements. Yet, in the agile Requirements Engineering (RE) literature, very little is known about how agile (re)prioritization happens in practice. Conceptual models about this process are missing, which, in turn, makes it difficult for both practitioners and researchers to reason about requirements decision-making at inter-iteration time. We did a multiple case study on agile requirements prioritization methods to yield a conceptual model for understanding the inter-iteration prioritization process. The model is derived by using interview data from practitioners in 8 development organizations. Such a model makes explicit the concepts that are used tacitly in the agile requirements prioritization practice and can be used for structuring future empirical investigations about this topic, and for analyzing, supporting, and improving the process in real-life projects.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ESEM '10
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Editors	G. Succi, M. Morisio, N. Nagappan
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-0039-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1852786.1852837
Publication status	Published - Sept 2010
Event	4th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2010 - Bolzano-Bozen, Italy Duration: 15 Sept 2010 → 17 Sept 2010 Conference number: 4

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Conference	4th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2010
Abbreviated title	ESEM 2010
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bolzano-Bozen
Period	15/09/10 → 17/09/10

Keywords

Agile development
SCS-Services
Requirements prioritization
Inter-iteration decision-making process
Case study

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Racheva, Z., Daneva, M., & Herrmann, A. (2010). A Conceptual Model of Client-driven Agile Requirements Prioritization: Results of a Case Study. In G. Succi, M. Morisio, & N. Nagappan (Eds.), ESEM '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement Article 39 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1852786.1852837

Racheva, Zornitza ; Daneva, Maia ; Herrmann, Andrea. / A Conceptual Model of Client-driven Agile Requirements Prioritization : Results of a Case Study. ESEM '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. editor / G. Succi ; M. Morisio ; N. Nagappan. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2010.

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Racheva, Z, Daneva, M & Herrmann, A 2010, A Conceptual Model of Client-driven Agile Requirements Prioritization: Results of a Case Study. in G Succi, M Morisio & N Nagappan (eds), ESEM '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement., 39, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, 4th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM 2010, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, 15/09/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1852786.1852837

A Conceptual Model of Client-driven Agile Requirements Prioritization: Results of a Case Study. / Racheva, Zornitza; Daneva, Maia; Herrmann, Andrea.
ESEM '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. ed. / G. Succi; M. Morisio; N. Nagappan. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. 39.

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Racheva Z, Daneva M, Herrmann A. A Conceptual Model of Client-driven Agile Requirements Prioritization: Results of a Case Study. In Succi G, Morisio M, Nagappan N, editors, ESEM '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. 2010. 39 doi: 10.1145/1852786.1852837

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