Agile Requirements: Tailoring the Functional Requirements Specification Process to Improve Agility

Abstract

Consulting led a mixed group of industrial folk and people from academia on a lively half-day romp through the world of agile requirements techniques. The session was light on slide presentation and heavy on active participatory learning. The day started off with a group project where the participants got to experience first hand some of the frustrations of typical requirements gathering techniques. During the debrief that followed, the participants shared their feelings of frustration and how the experience resembled their work place. The debrief was followed by a half-hour presentation on six techniques that can be used to make the requirements process more agile. It concluded with some brainstorming on how the process could be made agile and responsive to change.