Prioritization in Scrum: Impact of Maturity of Product Backlog Item

Volume: 2    Issue: 1

Year of Publication: 2015

Pages: (56-62)

Authors: Charanpreet kaur, Vijay Kumar

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Abstract

Requirements are the crucial part of software development. In the customers’ viewpoint all the requirements are critically important to implement. However, it is impossible to implement all the requirements at once. Therefore, selection of correct candidate requirement to implement is necessary. Prioritization is the finest way to determine the correct candidate requirement, especially in scrum agile methodology. In scrum, there are different factors such as business value, importance, risk, time, cost and dependencies, which consider for prioritizing the product backlog items in a product backlog. However, prioritization with these factors has no mean until the requirements are immature. This research paper has been aimed to present the impact of maturity of product backlog item on prioritization through a PBIMM (Product Backlog Item Maturity Model). A product backlog of real project has been considered to visualize the concept of product backlog item maturity. A survey has been done to analyze the impact of bug, reusable component, refinement on maturity and prioritization of product backlog items. The survey has resulted that the maturity directly impacts the prioritization of product backlog item.

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Keywords

Agile, Scrum, Prioritization, Product backlog, Maturity.