Socio-technical aspects of requirements-driven collaboration (RDC) in agile software development methods

Abstract

Requirements engineering is a collaborative process carried out with the mutual cooperation and coordination of stakeholders. Requirements-driven collaboration is of crucial and utmost importance in case of agile methods, especially for geographically distributed teams. Socio technical aspects have been discussed in literature for collaborative design and group work activities. Similarly this paper describes the socio-technical aspects in context of requirements engineering for agile methods. Precisely, in this paper we have twofold objectives; first we have mapped requirements engineering phases with agile methods workflow and secondly explored the socio-technical aspects of requirements-driven collaboration within agile methods. Thus this paper provides a new dimension of reviewing the socio technical aspects for requirements-driven collaboration and their alignment with agile iterations.