Appreciative Inquiry in Eliciting Software Requirements
Omar Isam Al Mrayat, Norita Md Norwawi, Nurlida Basir · 2013
Over the years, software development failures is really a burning issue, might be ascribed to quite a number of attributes, of which, no-compliance of users requirements and exceeding the budget are considered foremost. In order to address this issue and to facilitate system designers, this study has developed a modified user requirements elicitation technique, based on principles of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), which was proposed by Carol K. Gonzales and Gondy Leroy. Appreciative Inquiry facilitates developers to build systems based on success stories, making use of a optimistic perspective for achieving a foreseeable future. This paper is aimed at enhancing processes of comprehending the appreciative inquiry strategy; this is crucial to determine the requirements of the user, as it enables much better software development and does not waste resources unnecessarily. It is essential for all the end users to persistently participate in all the stages of appreciative inquiry, along with developers. Basically, AI will complement the present approaches, by representing a optimistic and potential factor for a proposed system, which results in much better user needs, and identifies novel and distinctive specifications, which has been presented as a case study in this paper.