Do we Know Enough about Requirements Prioritization in Agile Projects: Insights from a Case Study

Zornitza Racheva; Maia Daneva; Klaas Sikkel; Roel Wieringa; Andrea Herrmann

doi:10.1109/RE.2010.27

Do we Know Enough about Requirements Prioritization in Agile Projects: Insights from a Case Study

Zornitza Racheva, Maia Daneva, Klaas Sikkel, Roel Wieringa, Andrea Herrmann

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Requirements prioritization is an essential mechanism of agile software development approaches. It maximizes the value delivered to the clients and accommodates changing requirements. This paper presents results of an exploratory cross-case study on agile prioritization and business value delivery processes in eight software organizations. We found that some explicit and fundamental assumptions of agile requirement prioritization approaches, as described in the agile literature on best practices, do not hold in all agile project contexts in our study. These are (i) the driving role of the client in the value creation process, (ii) the prevailing position of business value as a main prioritization criterion, (iii) the role of the prioritization process for project goal achievement. This implies that these assumptions have to be reframed and that the approaches to requirements prioritization for value creation need to be extended.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	18th International IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference 2010
Place of Publication	Los Alamitos, CA
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	147-156
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-8022-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2010.27
Publication status	Published - Oct 2010
Event	18th International IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2010 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 27 Sept 2010 → 1 Oct 2010 Conference number: 18

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Conference	18th International IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2010
Abbreviated title	RE 2010
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	27/09/10 → 1/10/10

Keywords

Exploratory case study
Agile development
SCS-Services
Requirements Prioritization
Value creation

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Racheva, Z, Daneva, M, Sikkel, K, Wieringa, R & Herrmann, A 2010, Do we Know Enough about Requirements Prioritization in Agile Projects: Insights from a Case Study. in 18th International IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference 2010. IEEE, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 147-156, 18th International IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2010, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 27/09/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2010.27

Do we Know Enough about Requirements Prioritization in Agile Projects: Insights from a Case Study. / Racheva, Zornitza; Daneva, Maia; Sikkel, Klaas et al.
18th International IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference 2010. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE, 2010. p. 147-156.

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