Early Prioritisation of Goals

摘要

Prioritisation is important in keeping a software project on track and ensuring that the stakeholder's needs are being fulfilled. In this paper four methods for goal prioritisation are examined. Using a case study as its basis, each method is evaluated on its ease of use for a stakeholder, the time it takes to complete and the amount of confidence they have that the method accurately reflects their priorities. The type of information yielded by each method is also described. The results show the techniques give a consistent priority. Grouping and ranking techniques are easier for stakeholders to perform and generally take less time than techniques showing magnitude of preference. There is also a strong correlation between the stakeholder's confidence in the technique and how easy they feel it was to perform.