Customer Involvement in Requirements Management: Lessons from Mass Market Software Development

Authors:
Jaap Kabbedijk;Sjaak Brinkkemper;Slinger Jansen;Bas van der Veldt
Affiliations:
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Venue:
RE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Product software vendors are regularly challenged with identifying and selecting the requirements of upcoming product releases. Companies struggle to involve their customers and have a hard time selecting the right requirements from the enormous number of candidate requirements. This paper presents a practical approach to overcome these problems by including customers in the requirements management process through different types of involvement. The presented case illustrates how software requirements are gathered from customers, by involving them on three different levels. Based on the industrial experiences we present six lessons from customer involvement in large scale requirements management.