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A Review: Requirements Prioritization Criteria Within Collaboration Perspective

Tan Amelia and Rozlina Mohamed

Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47836/pjst.31.1.11

Keywords: Aspects, client’s perspective, cost-value approach, developer’s perspective requirements, models, methods, prioritization criteria, techniques

Published on: 3 January 2023

The attributes or criteria used in the requirements prioritization process become an essential reference in calculating priorities. Most of the techniques are used to increase the value impacting business success. On the contrary, there are limitations on cost, time, and resources for developing software. Therefore, the requirements prioritization process often requires collaboration from the perspectives involved. So far, the pattern and basis have not been seen in the criteria used in the requirements prioritization process. Consequently, there need to be other factors that become a reference so that the selection of criteria is appropriate. This study identifies criteria based on the categorized perspectives of requirements prioritization. A systematic literature review presents criteria for prioritizing requirements from multiple collaborative perspectives. Findings show that the criteria in requirements prioritization can be classified into beneficial and non-beneficial, where business value and development cost are the most frequently used criteria. Furthermore, the involvement of multiple perspectives in requirements prioritization focuses on the client’s and developer’s perspectives. The findings also reveal that some of the challenges in the requirements prioritization process are biases by stakeholders, reducing pairwise comparison, and scalability. In the future, it will be investigated whether the selection of criteria correlated with stakeholder perspectives will increase the accuracy of priorities. Thus, the contribution of this paper is to recommend criteria from stakeholders’ perspectives.

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