Requirements Engineering Principles in Large-Scale Agile Systems Development

Abstract

Despite the increasing popularity of adopting agile methods in large-scale systems engineering, there is no literature about a high-level guideline for requirements engineering (RE) in the field, such as RE principles. This study aims to investigate 1) a real-life example of RE principles to get an overview of the topic, 2) the benefits of RE principles in practices within the context of the case company, and 3) RE principles for large-scale agile systems development. This study uses mixed methods; i.e., case study, focus group and workshop. As a result, the topic of RE principles is examined in the context of the case company and a set of RE principles that could be generally applicable to large-scale agile systems development is identified. The findings are expected to be used as guidelines to improve RE works in organizations.