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Guidelines and Practices to Enable Requirements Traceability for Scaled Agile Software Development
Dissertation (MEng (Industrial and Systems Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/110101 Guidelines and Practices to Enable Requirements Traceability for Scaled Agile Software Development De Vries, Marne lyndall.fourie@gmail.com Fourie, Lyndall Agile software development agile at scale RE practices shared vision big picture traceability. Dissertation (MEng (Industrial and Systems Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2018. Enterprise agility is an important determinant of the success of an enterprise in a turbulent and dynamic environment. The Information Technology (IT) capability acts as an enabler for enterprise agility and enterprises need to continuously nurture and develop superior enterprise wide IT capability to ensure enterprise agility. Agile software development has emerged over the past two decades as a method to deliver faster, better and cheaper IT solutions. The success in small and co-located teams has led to the use of agile software development on projects where various agile scaling factors apply, such as large team sizes, multiple teams and stakeholders that are geographically distributed. Situations emerged as a class-of-problems where many practitioners have challenges to successfully implement existing agile software development practices when scaling factors apply. The class-of-problems was validated in literature and at a real-world medium sized enterprise in order to provide evidence about the generic nature of the problem and provide a real-world example of the problem. An in-depth study about the nature of the problem identified the main challenges within several areas, namely requirements management, architecture and design, the agile method, product quality and collaboration and communication between teams. The main challenges were further analysed to uncover the root causes and the results of the root cause analysis directed the focus of the study and the main research question, namely: What useful guidelines and practices to integrate requirements engineering practices will enable traceability from a shared vision to user stories for medium sized enterprises where agile scaling factors apply in order to reduce the impact of the problems caused by lack of a shared big picture traceable to user stories? An action design research (ADR) methodology was selected as an appropriate research methodology, since it enabled the researcher to iteratively develop the guidelines and practices from theory and shape it in the context of an enterprise. The demonstrated guidelines and practices were evaluated with participants in the enterprise and the overall feedback was that the guidelines and practices would have a positive impact on some of the core challenges. The results support the thesis of the study namely guidelines and practices to integrate agile requirements engineering practices to enable traceability from a shared vision to user stories for agile software development projects where agile scaling factors apply, will reduce the impact of the problems caused by lack of shared big picture, traceable to user stories. Although the guidelines and practices were demonstrated and evaluated in the specific context of one particular enterprise, the view of the researcher is that the guidelines and practices may III be applicable to a broader context, since the guidelines and practices were developed from literature with the ability to evolve and adapt to the context of other enterprises. Industrial and Systems Engineering MEng (Industrial and Systems Engineering) 2026-05-15T17:26:18Z 2026-05-15T17:26:18Z 18/07/25 2018 Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/2263/110101 en application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Agile software development agile at scale RE practices shared vision big picture traceability. Guidelines and Practices to Enable Requirements Traceability for Scaled Agile Software Development |
| title | Guidelines and Practices to Enable Requirements Traceability for Scaled Agile Software Development |
| title_full | Guidelines and Practices to Enable Requirements Traceability for Scaled Agile Software Development |
| title_fullStr | Guidelines and Practices to Enable Requirements Traceability for Scaled Agile Software Development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Guidelines and Practices to Enable Requirements Traceability for Scaled Agile Software Development |
| title_short | Guidelines and Practices to Enable Requirements Traceability for Scaled Agile Software Development |
| title_sort | guidelines and practices to enable requirements traceability for scaled agile software development |
| topic | Agile software development agile at scale RE practices shared vision big picture traceability. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/110101 |