[Context] Creativity is often needed in requirements elicitation, i.e., generating ideas for requirements, and techniques to enhance creativity are believed to be useful. [Objective] How does the size of a group using POEPMcreate, an optimization of EPMcreate, affect the group’s and each member of the group’s effectiveness in generating requirement ideas? [Method] This paper describes an experiment in which groups of sizes one and two used POEPMcreate to generate ideas for requirements for enhancing a high school’s public Web site. [Results] The data of this experiment combined with the data of two previous experiments involving groups of sizes two and four indicate that the size of a group using POEPMcreate does affect the number of raw and new requirement ideas generated by the group and by each member of the group. [Conclusion] The conclusion from the data is that the larger a group is the more raw and new requirement ideas it generates. However, there is some support for the conclusion that a group member generates more raw and new requirement ideas in a smaller group than in a larger group. This conclusion is supported by qualitative data gathered from a survey of professional business or requirements analysts.
Titolo: | Group Versus Individual Use of an Optimized and the Full EPMcreate as Creativity Enhancement Techniques for Web site Requirements Elicitation |
Autori: | Sakhnini, V.; Mich, Luisa; Berry, D. M. |
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Titolo del volume contenente il saggio: | 19th International Working Conference on Requirements |
Luogo di edizione: | Essen |
Casa editrice: | ICB-Research Report |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 2013 |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/97163 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 04.1 Saggio in atti di convegno (Paper in proceedings) |