Visualizing, Analyzing and Managing the Scope of Software Releases in Large-Scale Requirements Engineering

Large market-driven software companies face new challenges in require-ments engineering and management that emerged due to their recent ex-tensive growth. At the same time, the pressure generated by competitors’ and users ’ expectations demands being more competitive, creative and flexible to more quickly respond to a rapidly changing market situation. In the pursuit of staying competitive in this context, new ideas on how to im-prove the current requirements engineering practice are requested to help maintaining the engineering efficiency while coping with growing size and complexity of requirements engineering processes and their products. This thesis focuses on visualizing, analyzing and managing the scope of software releases in large-scale requirements management for develop-ing software products to open markets. In particular, this thesis focuses on the following requirements management activities in the mentioned con-text, namely: scope management, decision making, obsolete requirement