An industrial case study on measuring the quality of the requirements scoping process
2016 (English)In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science / [ed] Amasaki S.,Mikkonen T.,Felderer M.,Abrahamsson P.,Duc A.N.,Jedlitschka A., Springer, 2016, Vol. 10027, p. 487-494Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Decision making and requirements scoping occupy central roles in helping to develop products that are demanded by the customers and ensuring company strategies are accurately realized in product scope. Many companies experience continuous and frequent scope changes and fluctuations but struggle to measure the phenomena and correlate the measurement to the quality of the requirements process. We present the results from an exploratory interview study among 22 participants working with requirements management processes at a large company that develops embedded systems for a global market. Our respondents shared their opinions about the current set of requirements management process metrics as well as what additional metrics they envisioned as useful. We present a set of metrics that describe the quality of the requirements scoping process. The findings provide practical insights that can be used as input when introducing new measurement programs for requirements management and decision making.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2016. Vol. 10027, p. 487-494
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 0302-9743 ; 10027
Keywords [en]
Process improvement, Requirements engineering, Software metrics, Embedded systems, International trade, Process engineering, Industrial case study, Large companies, Measurement programs, Requirements management, Requirements process, Scoping process, Decision making
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-13607DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_34Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84998980901ISBN: 9783319490939 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-13607DiVA, id: diva2:1056099
Conference
17th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES, Trondheim;
2016-12-142016-12-142021-03-25Bibliographically approved