Controlling Lost Opportunity Costs in Agile Development – the Basic Lost Opportunity Estimation Model for Requirements Scoping

Summary, in English

We present a model for estimating the final keep/cancel decision point, on a per-feature basis, for scope inclusion in a future release. The Basic Lost Opportunity Estimation Model (BLOEM), based on data from a company that uses an agile-inspired software development model, supports feature selection when the time-dependent business value estimates change as the requirements analysis progresses. The initial BLOEM validation, conducted on a set of 166 features, suggests that the model can valuable input to the feature selection process for a given release, helping to control lost opportunity costs due to feature cancellation. Limitations of BLOEM are discussed and issues for further research are presented.

• Författare: Krzysztof Wnuk; David Callele; Even-Andre Karlsson; Björn Regnell
• Redaktör: Michael Cusumano; Bala Iyer; N. Venkatraman
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för datavetenskap; Programvarusystem; ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication
• Publiceringsår: 2012
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 255-260
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Software Business/Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing,
• Volym: 114
• Issue: 2
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30746-1_21
• Dokumenttyp: Konferensbidrag
• Förlag: Springer
• Ämne: Computer Science
• Nyckelord: Requirements management scope management agile development software business
• Conference name: Third International Conference, ICSOB 2012
• Conference date: 2012-06-18 - 2012-06-20
• Conference place: Cambridge, MA, United States
• Status: Published
• Projekt: UPITER - Efficient requirements architectures in platform-based requirements management for mobile terminals
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISBN: 978-3-642-30745-4