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Title | ||
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Group versus individual use of power-only EPMcreate as a creativity enhancement technique for requirements elicitation. |
Abstract | ||
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Creativity is often needed in requirements elicitation, i.e., generating ideas for requirements, and therefore, techniques to enhance creativity are believed to be useful. How does the size of a group using the Power-Only EPMcreate (POEPMcreate) creativity enhancement technique affect the group's and each member of the group's effectiveness in generating requirement ideas? This paper describes an experiment in which individuals and two-person and four-person groups used POEPMcreate to generate ideas for requirements for enhancing a high school's public Web site. The data of this experiment combined with the data of two previous experiments involving two-person and four-person groups using POEPMcreate show that, similar to what has been observed for brainstorming, the size of a group using POEPMcreate does affect the number of raw and new requirement ideas generated by the group and by the average member of the group. The data allow concluding that a two-person group using POEPMcreate generates more raw and new requirement ideas, both per group and per group member or individual, than does a four-person group and than does an individual. This conclusion is partially corroborated by qualitative data gathered from a survey of professional business or requirements analysts about group sizes and creativity enhancement techniques. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1007/s10664-016-9475-z | Empirical Software Engineering |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Group Size,Requirement Engineering,Requirement Engineer,Experiment Number,Requirement Idea | Brainstorming,Systems engineering,Qualitative property,Computer science,Knowledge management,Requirements engineering,Requirements elicitation,Creativity,Management science,Web site | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
22 | 4 | 1382-3256 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.41 | 31 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Victoria Sakhnini | 1 | 16 | 1.50 |
| Luisa Mich | 2 | 430 | 42.81 |
| Daniel M. Berry | 3 | 1091 | 148.76 |