Leveraging creativity in requirements elicitation within agile software development: a systematic literature review
Ainhoa Aldave, Juan M. Vara, David Granada, Esperanza Marcos

TL;DR
This systematic review explores how integrating creative thinking into requirements elicitation within agile software development can foster innovation, highlighting approaches, benefits, limitations, and evidence of successful industry application.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive analysis of 13 approaches leveraging creativity in agile requirements elicitation, emphasizing their practical implementation and contextual effectiveness.
Findings
Creativity approaches are successfully applied in real projects.
User interface projects benefit most from creative requirements elicitation.
Agile methodologies facilitate the integration of creativity into requirements gathering.
Abstract
Agile approaches tend to focus solely on scoping and simplicity rather than on problem solving and discovery. This hampers the development of innovative solutions. Additionally, little has been said about how to capture and represent the real user needs. To fill this gap, some authors argue in favor of the application of Creative thinking for requirements elicitation within agile software development. This synergy between creativeness and agility has arisen as a new means of bringing innovation and flexibility to increasingly demanding software. The aim of the present study is therefore to employ a systematic review to investigate the state-of-the-art of those approaches that leverage creativity in requirements elicitation within Agile Software Development, as well as the benefits, limitations and strength of evidence of these approaches. The search strategy identified 1451 studies. The…
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