Investigation into Requirements Management Practices in the Malaysian Software Industry

This paper reported a study of investigation into requirements management practices in the Malaysian software industry. The study was conducted to gain an insight into the extent to which the requirements management practices have been adopted by the organizations in Malaysia, how these organizations described their requirements and evaluating their requirements management practices at CMM level 2. The study was conducted on randomly chosen companies, and the questionnaire was design to use descriptive statistics on the data collected. The study has shown the current state of requirements management in the Malaysian software industry. From the result, it can be concluded that the software industry is lacking of employing good practices in managing requirements. This indicates that requirements management area should be implemented regularly in order to improve software quality and productivity within scheduled time frame.