Market Driven Requirements Engineering Strategy for Startups

Abstract

This report investigates the concept of requirements engineering in startups. There are well known best-practices in requirements engineering in software engineering domain for large businesses, but there is a lack of best-practices within the startup domain. What constitutes an RE strategy for startups? By researching and reviewing literature we develop a strategy which we use as a base for finding challenges and practices through interviews at a startup called Trovisio. The result is a Requirements Engineering Strategy for Startups, and identified practices and challenges at Trovisio. The conclusion describes communication as one of the key focus points as well as including the market needs throughout the development process. Keywords-strategy; requirements engineering; startups;