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Title A FRAMEWORK FOR REQUIREMENTS CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN DISTRIBUTED AGILE DEVELOPMENT

Author(s) SYEDA FARWA BATOOL

Abstract Requirements engineering (RE) is a salient phase in any software development project. Requirements keep changing in today’s software industry due to increased size and complexities. Therefore, an efficient requirements change management (RCM) process is vital for the success of any project. Distributed software development (DSD) has become a norm now and agile methods are being widely used in DSD to counter changing requirements. Agile methods and DSD, being opposite in nature to each other, present new challenges when they are incorporated together in distributed agile development (DAD). Therefore, an efficient RCM process is the need to today’s software industry. This research study has been conducted to fill this gap by presenting a framework for RCM in DAD. Systematic Literature Review (SLR) has been conducted to identify influencing factors that affect RCM process. Grounded theory is then applied for the analysis to categorize the resultant influencing factors. The resulting categories and the influencing factors for each category have been validated through expert review. After the expert review, a survey is conducted to prioritize the results according to their significance during the RCM process. Finally, a framework has been proposed to conduct the RCM process in DAD based on the prioritized categories and their prioritized influencing factors. The study concludes that RCM is vital for successful DAD projects and the proposed framework provides a systematic and scaled solution to conduct the RCM process in an effective manner. The application of proposed framework at a wider scale in the industry is a potential future work of this research study. Automating the framework is another interesting dimension for the future.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Engineering and Computer Science

Department Engineering

Language English

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