Requirements Tool Practices that Drive Business Agility

CONTEXT: Successful agile teams advance their work practices continuously. The continuous improvement of effective tool-based requirements practices is an important foundation of business agility. However, requirements tool practices are still widely rooted in plan-based approaches. They are not yet suited well for agile teams or agile businesses. OBJECTIVE: Report and make available an approach for continuous improvement of requirements practices so that tool-based requirements management can drive business agility. METHOD: Industry experience report based on a series of cases from different sources, including ones with involvement of the author. RESULTS: Processes and work practices for evolutionarily introducing and adapting requirements tools and tool-based requirements practices, in a way that supports business agility. CONCLUSION: The presented practices can guide organizations towards establishing effective, tool-based requirements practices that support business agility. A foundation is laid for further systematic investigation and development of the approach.