Title :
Supporting the Requirements Prioritization Process Using Social Network Analysis Techniques
Author :
Fitsilis, Panos ; Gerogiannis, Vassilis ; Anthopoulos, Leonidas ; Savvas, Ilias K.
Author_Institution :
Project Manage. Dept., TEI Larissa, Larissa, Greece
Abstract :
Requirements management and prioritization is a complex process that should take into account requirements value for customers, cost of implementation, available resources, requirements interdependencies, system architecture and dependencies to the code base. In this paper we present how Social Network Analysis can be used in order to improve software requirements management and the prioritization process. The presented model is based on meta-networks where basic entities are combined for representing requirements priorities, interdependencies, required knowledge, etc.. The analysis of the model is illustrated with sample data and a number of examples.
Keywords :
social networking (online); software development management; systems analysis; requirement prioritization process; social network analysis; software requirements management; Collaboration; Knowledge engineering; Planning; Project management; Social network services; Software; Unified modeling language; requirements management; requirements prioritazation; social networking;
Conference_Titel :
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), 2010 19th IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Larissa
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7216-1
DOI :
10.1109/WETICE.2010.24