A Novel Approach in Calculating Stakeholder priority in Requirements Elicitation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a systematic stakeholder classification and a novel method for calculating stakeholder priority in requirements elicitation, considering importance, value, and urgency to improve requirement management.

Contribution

It presents a new approach that actively involves stakeholders and accounts for their differing importance and preferences in prioritizing requirements.

Findings

Stakeholder classification improves requirement prioritization.

The method effectively incorporates stakeholder importance, value, and urgency.

Enhanced stakeholder involvement leads to better requirement management.

Abstract

The ultimate goal of any software developer seeking a competitive edge is to meet stakeholders needs and expectations. To achieve this, it is necessary to effectively and accurately manage stakeholders system requirements. The paper proposes a systematic way of classifying stakeholders and then describes a novel method for calculating stakeholder priority taking into consideration the fact that different stakeholders will have different importance level and different requirement preference. Finally the requirement preference calculation is done where stakeholders choose the best requirements based on two factors, value and urgency of the requirement. The proposed method actively involves stakeholders in the requirement elicitation process.