Agile Requirements Management

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Agile Requirements Management
Mike Arvela, Matias Muhonen
www.agiletool.org
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The gap between RE and agile development

• In agile projects requirements change constantly
• Overall, agile processes emphasize working
  software over comprehensive documentation (Agile
  Manifesto)
• The existing requirements engineering tools focus
  on the document-oriented way of managing
  requirements
• Thus, a tool for agile requirement engineering is
  needed

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The gap between RE and agile development

• Requirement management tends to be challenging in
  practice
• In modern software projects requirements change
  often and the development team and the customer
  are not talking the same language
• The reality seems to follow the I Know It When I
  See It (IKIWISI) principle (Boehm, 2000)
• How to keep track of the requirements?
• By attaching the requirements directly to the
  software being developed

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What is AgileTool?

• A web-based tool for agile requirements
  management (works on any modern web browser)
• You can directly attach the requirements to the
  software being developed
• Developed with Java, Groovy and the Grails
  framework

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AgileTool Features

• Add websites in development (support for multiple
  projects and versions)
• Create and modify requirements
• Print the requirements as a requirements document

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Demonstration

• Lets see a live AgileTool demo!
• demo.agiletool.org

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Future plans

• The tool was developed as a student project at
  the University of Tampere we still need some
  polishing
• Introducing AgileTool in real-life projects it
  may well fit to Ambientias agile development
  process
• Possibly open sourcing the product
• Further development

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• Thank you!
• Any questions? Please visit www.agiletool.org for
  more info