Authors:
Asma Sellami
1
;
Mariem Haoues
2
;
Nour Borchani
1
and
Nadia Bouassida
1
Affiliations:
1
Mir@cl Laboratory, University of Sfax, ISIMS, BP 242. 3021, Sfax and Tunisia
;
2
Mir@cl Laboratory, University of Sfax, FSEGS, BP 1088. 3018, Sfax and Tunisia
Keyword(s):
Functional Change, User Requirements, COSMIC ISO 19761, Functional Size Measurement, Scrum, User Story Description.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Analytics
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Decision Support Systems, Remote Data Analysis
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Because user requirements change frequently during the software life-cycle, project managers looked at flexible methods that manage changes as more information take place. Today, agile methods such as Scrum are increasingly used in software organizations to avoid the danger of “scope creep” and project delays. Although the scrum method is gaining popularity, a change request is still poorly evaluated within an ongoing sprint. Moreover, there is a lack of a structured change evaluation approach that helps in making an appropriate decision after a Functional Change (FC) request. The main objective of this paper is to propose a decision support tool that assists the decision-makers to decide whether to accept, deny or defer a given FC request. For this purpose, we use the COSMIC Functional Size Measurement (FSM) method to evaluate a FC request. We distinguish between a FC affecting an ongoing sprint and a FC affecting an implemented sprint. Based mainly on the functional size of the pro
posed FC and the development progress, we provide recommendations to the decision-makers.
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