Utilizing online serious games to facilitate distributed requirements elicitation

Ghanbari, Hadi; Similä, Jouni; Markkula, Jouni

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2015.07.017

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“…He also defined a mapping system to help developers choose the best game to play. Ghanbari et al [10] In our previous work [20], we proposed an extension to Open Kanban, which contains 12 collaborative games divided into four categories in compliance with four Open Kanban principles. This extension may help inexperienced teams better understand the principles of Kanban and support their teamwork.…”

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“…To summarize, our work differs from [9,10,25] in that we use collaborative games to stimulate developers while they used collaborative games to foster customers' engagement in the software development process. In turn, Derby & Larsen [4], Gonçalves & Linders [11], Caroli & Caetano [3], Krivitsky [18], and Jovanović et al [16] proposed catalogues of collaborative games that can be used to facilitate retrospectives, but they did not study how these games work in practice.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These activities challenge participants who are normally quiet or reserved to take a proactive role [14]. Furthermore, numerous studies have suggested that fun is a powerful tool in unleashing creativity [13,19], and facilitating collaboration [10,20,25]. Our main interest in this research is to investigate whether the promised benefits of collaborative games are materialized during retrospectives.…”

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Kotecka

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

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Abstract-According to the textbook [23], Scrum exists only in its entirety, where every component is essential to Scrum's success. However, in many organizational environments some of the components are omitted or modified in a way that is not aligned with the Scrum guidelines. Usually, such deviations result in missing the full benefits of Scrum [24]. Thereby, a Scrum process should be frequently inspected and any deviations should be corrected [23]. In this paper, we report on an Action Research project conducted in Intel Technology Poland to revise the work practices related to the Retrospective. During the focus group discussion in the company, retrospectives were generally judged ineffective because "the same things are discussed over and over". To cope with this challenge, we revitalized retrospectives by adopting collaborative games. The feedback received from three Scrum teams indicates that our approach improved participants' creativity, involvement, and communication, and produced better results than the standard retrospective.

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2017

Proceedings of the 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

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“…There are only a few examples of application of games to the requirements engineering domain, which are aimed at learning, creativity and problem-solving. Games, such as Prune the Tree-for the creation of a product roadmap through requirements development, and Buy a Featurefor the prioritization of requirements in product releases, described in detail by Ghanbari et al [32], have demonstrated some success in fostering innovation and collaboration in distributed teams, and in improving the quantity and quantity of elicited software requirements. The Refine platform has focused on the benefits of crowdsourcing for requirements gathering [77] and the GREM model explores gamifying requirements elicitation in Agile processes [53].…”

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Requirements analysis gamification in legacy system replacement projects

Alexandrova

Rapanotti

2019

Requirements Eng

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The replacement of legacy systems in the public sector is fraught with project delays, budgetary overruns, technological and business process complexities. Moreover, the software implemented to replace legacy systems is developed or configured to largely mimic their features and functionality in order to minimize the disruption to organizational operations that accompanies the introduction of new technology. When the requirements for legacy replacement primarily replicate existing applications and processes, opportunities for business process improvement are bypassed. However, it is difficult for practitioners to transcend the business and systems models prevalent in their organizations for many years. The challenge is to support them to overcome such a difficulty, and be creative and engaged during requirements discussions. Our research aims to evaluate the utility of gamifying the requirements activities during legacy replacement projects for scoping replacement systems efforts in a way that takes advantage of opportunities for innovation while minimizing unnecessary changes to the status quo. The supplementation of the requirements process with game elements is explored in our research through the development of a requirements discussion game (RE-PROVO) and its evaluation by practitioners in two government agencies. Our findings reveal that key elements of RE-PROVO, including competition, anonymity and roleplay, encourage a more critical evaluation of business requirements in legacy replacement projects, but that the success of requirements gamification is contingent on a proper incentivization model which takes organizational culture and values into account.

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“…A method for improving requirements elicitation, particularly for the groups working in diverse and complex environments, was described recently [18]. The work suggests that serious games developed by Innovation Games® might be used for practicing teamwork, improving interaction between participants, and increase quantity and quality of requirements for ICT development.…”

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Contextual Design of ICT for Physiotherapy: Toward Knowledge and Innovation Ecosystem

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Oliveira²,

Postolache³

2017

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies

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With advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), changes have been produced in physiotherapy provision. However, low adoption of the new technologies calls attention for better theoretical model and methods for ICT design, which may fulfil the needs of health professionals and their patients. In this work we discuss the framework for designing ICT for physiotherapy context based on some of the results obtained during research on requirements and barriers of electronic health records adoption in physiotherapy. We underscore the importance of considering the contextthe conditions in social and physical environment as well as end-users internal conditions -for requirements elicitation of the healthcare information system. Identification, training and collaboration with champion/leader in the target community may contribute to creation and evolution of knowledge and innovation ecosystem for dynamic progress in designing and developing of ICT tailored to the people' needs, expectations and values.

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Utilizing online serious games to facilitate distributed requirements elicitation

Cited by 48 publications

References 45 publications

Making agile retrospectives more awesome

Making agile retrospectives more awesome

Requirements analysis gamification in legacy system replacement projects

Contextual Design of ICT for Physiotherapy: Toward Knowledge and Innovation Ecosystem

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