Impact of team size on requirement quantity
Kenny Nonso-Anyakwo, Joshua David Summers · Proceedings of the Design Society · 2025
ABSTRACT: This paper presents and experimental study that compares the performance of teams of one, three, and six in terms of generation of requirements from given design prompts. Team size has not been fully explored in the literature in comparative experimental studies for requirements generation. The study was conducted with 116 teams of one, 86 teams of three, and 92 teams of six composed of pre-service engineers in an introductory engineering course. Two prompts were used for the in-class activity. Results indicate that the size of the team did not have significant influence on the number of requirements generated. However, this suggests that there is a difference in efficiency of generating requirements. Analyzing the variety, novelty, and completeness of the requirements generated is reserved for future work. This work helps to lay the foundation for justifying team size.