Extending I-Tropos for Agile Sotware Development

Haidar, Hassan [UCL] Do, Duc Dung [UCL] Kolp, Manuel [UCL] Wautelet, Yves [KU Leuven]

Combining an iterative development process such as I-Tropos with an agile framework such as Scrum helps software professionals to deal with the social aspects and human needs. On the one hand, IterativeTropos (I-Tropos) is a “development process using coarse grained (i.e. high-level) and social-oriented requirements models, to drive the software development both in terms of project management and forward engineering (transformational) techniques”. On the other hand, Scrum is an agile framework for managing the development of complex products and services, especially software development. It is applicable to any project with aggressive deadlines, complex requirements and a degree of uniqueness. The objective of this working paper is to propose an integration of Scrum in I-Tropos in order to create a new hybrid methodology called I-Tropos-Extended. In fact, the integration of these two approaches aims to empower both the benefits of I-Tropos and Scrum. Consequently, the proposed approach could provide several benefits such as efficient software project management, continuous organizational modeling and requirements acquisition, early implementation, continuous testing and modularity, etc.