Software Methodology Assignment: Requirements and Product Features

This document presents a comprehensive solution to a software methodology assignment, focusing on key concepts in software development. The assignment addresses the challenge of feature creep, offering suggestions for a development team to avoid it through meticulous documentation, controlled change processes, transparent scheduling, stakeholder verification, and team involvement. It then explores the importance of domain knowledge in identifying and designing product features, highlighting its role in understanding requirements, identifying gaps, and mitigating risks. Finally, the assignment critiques the weaknesses of user requirements in identifying system features, acknowledging potential limitations. The document references key academic papers, providing a solid foundation for understanding the intricacies of software methodology and product development.

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Introduction
Software methodology is an essential concept to consider while developing and
implementing a new system application. Team of experts is involved in the whole process.
For example, designing of new product and it features in the organization requires principles
of software methodology. However, each product is described according to the input,
activation, action, and output features.
Q1: Suggest how a development team might avoid feature creep when “it is” to be in
agreement with “a team faced with many different for new features to be added to a
product.
Development of a software for an organization aims to achieve the target requirement as set
by the development team. However, with time differences may arise due to the newly added
requirements towards software development. Therefore, the following suggestion may act as
a solution to control the differentiation and keep the project on a smooth move. These include
documentation of the requirement, set up control process which can deal with new changes,
create an open schedule of the project, verify the project scope with relevant stakeholders,
and involve the entire project team in the whole process of software project development
(Schmalz, Carter, & Lee, 2019).
Q2: Explain why domain knowledge is important when identifying and designing
product features.
Domain knowledge is essential since it supports decision-related with product development.
For example, it helps to get a better understanding of product requirements, identify and
complete the missing requirement, and control the risk against the product while is under
development phase (Soares, Schobbens, & de Almeida, 2018).

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Q3: What do you think are the weaknesses of user requirement when used to identify
system features and how they work?
To some point, user requirements may have several weaknesses while identifying system
features. For example, they may limit some features which might be essential while
considering the system output. If the features are intended to accomplish one aim as per time,
then is a waste of resources while can complete several system functions once. Use
requirement they work through fulfilling user needs, and other subsequent output with
increased productivity.
Conclusion
Finally, user requirements, product design and features in this document have been
considered as basic to the project system. The question one has provided the solution of creep
features, and question addresses why domain knowledge is essential to the product
development process of the system.

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References
Schmalz, M., Carter, M., & Lee, J. H. (2019). The I in Team: IT Identity and Project
Behavior.
Soares, L. R., Schobbens, P. Y., & de Almeida, E. S. (2018). Feature interaction in software
product line engineering: A systematic mapping study. Information and Software
Technology, 98, 44-58.