RECENT AGILE REQUIREMENT ENGINEERING PRACTICES IN IT PROJECTS: A CASE ANALYSIS

Today, the implementation of high quality and efficient Requirement Engineering (RE) practices in agile software development projects, is gaining great importance. Practitioners and researchers seeks for lighter RE practices that can handle the issues of abstract, unclear and changing requirements, and at the same time that can satisfy the Agile Manifesto philosophy. This study examines importance of RE practices in agile software development projects, and explores which aspects of the RE practices are perceived as most critical and how such aspects are adapted in practice today through two different agile software development projects of a case organization. This study aims to contribute agile RE literature by providing an interpretive analysis on perception of agile RE practices from different perspectives (agile team members, product owners, some top executives). Within this context, this study draws lessons from case studies and presents beneficial agile RE guidelines for practitioners and researchers.

BT PROJELERİNDE GÜNCEL ÇEVİK GEREKSİNİM MÜHENDİSLİĞİ UYGULAMALARI: BİR VAKA İNCELEMESİ

Günümüzde, çevik yazılım geliştirme projelerinde, yüksek kaliteli ve verimli Gereksinim Mühendisliği (Requirement Engineering, RE) uygulamalarının gerçekleştirilmesi büyük önem kazanmaktadır. Uygulayıcılar ve araştırmacılar, soyut, belirsiz ve değişen gereksinimlerle ilgili sorunları ele alabilecek ve aynı zamanda Çevik Manifesto felsefesini sağlayabilecek daha hafif RE uygulamaları aramaktadır. Bu çalışma, çevik yazılım geliştirme projelerinde RE uygulamalarının önemini, RE uygulamalarının hangi yönlerinin en kritik olarak algılandığını ve bu durumların bir vaka organizasyonunun iki farklı çevik yazılım geliştirme projesi ile uygulamada nasıl gerçekleştirildiğini araştırmaktadır. Bu çalışma, farklı bakış açılarından (takım ekipleri, ürün sahipleri, bazı aşamalarda üst düzey yöneticiler) çevik RE uygulamalarının algısına ilişkin yorumlayıcı bir analiz sunarak çevik RE literatürüne katkı sağlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu kapsamda, bu çalışma vaka çalışmalarından ders çıkarmaktadır; uygulayıcılar ve araştırmacılar için yararlı çevik RE yol haritaları sunmaktadır.

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