Agile requirements prioritization in large-scale outsourced system projects: An empirical study

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1333-1353

  Daneva, Maya ^a   Van Der Veen, Egbert ^a   Amrit, Chintan ^a   Ghaisas, Smita ^b   Sikkel, Klaas ^a   Kumar, Ramesh ^b   Ajmeri, Nirav ^b   Ramteerthkar, Uday ^b   Wieringa, Roel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b TATA RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Agile requirements engineering; Case study; Distributed project management Qualitative research; Large projects; Outsourced software development; Requirements dependencies; Requirements prioritization

Indexed keywords

LARGE PROJECT; OUTSOURCED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REQUIREMENTS DEPENDENCIES; REQUIREMENTS PRIORITIZATION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84875238853     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.12.046     Document Type: Article

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