Applying Customer Development for Software Requirements in a Startup Development Program

Abstract

Startups face a dynamic environment and need to overcome several challenges in order do become successful. One of these challenges is related to the software requirement process. Since the customer is often unknown in a startup, the development team must find a strategy to avoid developing features that will not meet customers needs. This work presents the application of the customer development process for software requirement activities. Our preliminary results indicate that using customer development can help development teams improve their software requirement elicitation processes.