Agile Requirements Definition: A View from Requirements Engineering

Agile methods are an attractive alternative for those pressured to produce code fast. Many programmers like the hands-on strategy of these approaches which also help them avoid some of the less exciting tasks, such as specification. On the other hand, some people appear to welcome agile methods as an excuse to throw overboard everything that requirements engineering has been teaching. This position paper looks at numerous aspects of requirements engineering and argues about their suitability for agile approaches. The aim is to elicit lessons from requirements engineering that agile methods might consider, if quality is a major concern.