一句话：用扎根理论刻画16家初创企业成长中需求实践沿六个维度的演化及转折点。
本文研究软件初创企业成长并推出新产品或服务时，其需求实践如何演化。作者采用扎根理论，对16家初创企业进行实证研究。这些企业处于动态环境，面临显著的时间和市场压力，很少有时间进行系统化需求分析。研究提出一个理论，沿六个维度描述实践演化：需求制品、知识管理、需求相关角色、计划、技术债和产品质量；并解释驱动演化的转折点。这些变化多为反应式而非计划式，体现初创企业在走向工程化需求实践过程中的务实轻量性，即灵活性。该理论组织了对成熟中初创企业需求实践的知识，并为初创企业评估自身演化提供实践启示。研究还表明，沿六维度的演化并非成功的根本，但会显著影响产品、员工和公司。
We use Grounded Theory to study the evolution of requirements practices of 16 software startups as they grow and introduce new products and services. These startups operate in a dynamic environment, with significant time and market pressure, and rarely have time for systematic requirements analysis. Our theory describes the evolution of practice along six dimensions that emerged as relevant to their requirements activities: requirements artefacts, knowledge management, requirements-related roles, planning, technical debt and product quality. Beyond the relationships among the dimensions, our theory also explains the turning points that drove the evolution along these dimensions. These changes are reactive, rather than planned, suggesting an overall pragmatic lightness, i.e., flexibility, in the startups' evolution towards engineering practices for requirements. Our theory organises knowledge about evolving requirements practice in maturing startups, and provides practical insights for startups' assessing their own evolution as they face challenges to their growth. Our research also suggests that a startup's evolution along the six dimensions is not fundamental to its success, but has significant effects on their product, their employees and the company.
DOI 原文 ·
@inproceedings{paperbot4411,
title = {The evolution of requirements practices in software startups},
author = {Catarina Gralha and Daniela Damian and Anthony I. (Tony) Wasserman and Miguel Goulão and João Araújo},
booktitle = {ICSE},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1145/3180155.3180158}
}