Rize: A proposed requirements prioritization technique for agile development

Abstract

Prioritizing requirements before each iteration is a crucial part in the software development. The success of each internal or external release highly depends on properly prioritized requirements. However, requirements prioritization is considered as one of the most challenging phases in software development life cycle (SDLC) due to the absence of a simple, highly customizable, and time savings prioritization technique. Furthermore, as the existing prioritization techniques were not designed to handle issue starvation situation, so a new prioritization technique is required that can handle the issue starvation situation effectively and overcome the limitations of the existing techniques. In this paper, we have proposed a new requirements prioritization technique that is easy to use and understand, highly customizable, scalable, saves time and can handle the issue starvation scenario. Furthermore, we have shown the effectiveness of our proposed approach using a fictional scenario.