Chapter 4

Driving Architectural Design and Preservation from a Persona Perspective in Agile Projects

Jane Cleland-Huang, Adam Czauderna and Mehdi Mirakhorli,    DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

Abstract

Architecturally significant requirements (ASRs) drive and constrain many aspects of architecture. Eliciting and analyzing these requirements in the early phases of a project means that quality concerns can be discovered and addressed during the architectural design. This reduces the risk of costly and unnecessary refactoring. The challenge of emerging requirements is particularly evident in agile projects, which are inherently incremental; however, existing techniques for eliciting ASRs, such as win-win and i*, are typically rejected by agile ...

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