Improving requirements management in extreme programming with tool support - an improvement attempt that failed

Jukka Kääriäinen; Juha Koskela; Pekka Abrahamsson; Juha Takalo

doi:10.1109/EURMIC.2004.1333389

Improving requirements management in extreme programming with tool support - an improvement attempt that failed

Jukka Kääriäinen, Juha Koskela, Pekka Abrahamsson, Juha Takalo

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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Abstract

While extreme programming (XP) relies on certain principles, it requires an extensive set of tools to enable an effective execution of its practices. In many companies, putting stories on the board may not be sufficient for managing rapidly changing requirements. The objective of This work is to report the results from a study where a requirement management tool - the Storymanager - was developed to meet the needs of a XP project team. The tool was used in a case project where a mobile application for real markets was produced. The tool was dropped by the team only after two releases. The reasons of the process improvement failure are addressed in This work. The principal results show that the tool was found to be too difficult to use and that it failed to provide as powerful a visual view as the paper-pen board method. The implications of these findings are addressed for both the practitioners and researchers in the field.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings, 30th Euromicro Conference 2004
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	342-351
ISBN (Print)	0-7695-2199-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EURMIC.2004.1333389
Publication status	Published - 2004
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	30th Euromicro Conference, EUROMICRO 2004 - Rennes, France Duration: 31 Aug 2004 → 3 Sept 2004

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Conference	30th Euromicro Conference, EUROMICRO 2004
Country/Territory	France
City	Rennes
Period	31/08/04 → 3/09/04

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Kääriäinen, J, Koskela, J, Abrahamsson, P & Takalo, J 2004, Improving requirements management in extreme programming with tool support - an improvement attempt that failed. in Proceedings, 30th Euromicro Conference 2004. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, pp. 342-351, 30th Euromicro Conference, EUROMICRO 2004, Rennes, France, 31/08/04. https://doi.org/10.1109/EURMIC.2004.1333389

Improving requirements management in extreme programming with tool support - an improvement attempt that failed. / Kääriäinen, Jukka; Koskela, Juha; Abrahamsson, Pekka et al.
Proceedings, 30th Euromicro Conference 2004. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2004. p. 342-351.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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