Requirements Engineering Methodology in Agile Environment

Abstract

This paper provides a better understanding of the architecturerelated issues in agile projects and proposes a methodology to guide and assist practitioners adopting agile requirements engineering. The methodology was motivated by the lack of structure to the agile requirements engineering process with minimal impact on agility. It describes in detail the phases in the agile requirements engineering process and suggests techniques that can be used to perform these phases. As the length of the development lifecycle is taken into account, the methodology describes not only the requirements engineering process activities but the complete development process as well. It reflects the agile principles such as direct stakeholder involvement, evolutionary requirements, refactoring, no BRUF, just-in-time gathering of details and minimal documentation.