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[Context & motivation] Growing software companies with increasing product complexity face the issue of how to scale up their Requirements Engineering (RE) practices. In market-driven requirements engineering, release planning and scoping decisions are increasingly challenging as the size and complexity increases. [Problem] This paper presents initial results of an on-going exploratory, qualitative investigation of three market-driven, industrial cases with the objective of increasing our understanding of challenges in scaling up requirements engineering and how these challenges are addressed by the studied companies. [Results] Through 13 interviews in three companies, requirements engineering scalability issues are explored related to scoping and the structure of RE artifacts. [Contribution] The main contribution are findings related to increasing RE scale based on interpretations of the experienced interviewees’ views.
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The interview instrument for the first part of the study (Company A) can be accessed at, http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Krzysztof_Wnuk/REFSQ11/Req_Arch_Interview_Guide.pdf
The interview instrument for the second part of the study (Companies B and C) can be accessed at, http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Krzysztof_Wnuk/REFSQ11/Scalling_up.pdf
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Wnuk, K., Regnell, B., Berenbach, B. (2011). Scaling Up Requirements Engineering – Exploring the Challenges of Increasing Size and Complexity in Market-Driven Software Development. In: Berry, D., Franch, X. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6606. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19858-8_6
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