Market-driven requirements engineering processes for software products - a report on current practices

This paper reports on some preliminary results from the first stage of an interview survey, focusing on current practices and challenges in market-driven RE. The interviews are analysed based on the characteristics of market-driven RE presented in the literature. The interviews correspond largely with the literature. Identified discrepancies compared with the literature concerns the time-to-market attribute and documentation of requirements. Two major groupings among the participating companies were found. The RE processes of one of these groupings are focused on facilitating the activities fundamental in market-driven RE, e.g. the release planning activity, while the other is more document-driven. The results of the interviews also include some ideas on how market-driven RE activities may be performed