Agile requirements engineering – the free AGILITY brochure
How requirements engineering works in agile teams. Free from the SOPHISTs.
You ask for a blue car with plenty of horsepower. Your team delivers exactly that – a blue truck, not the sports car you had in mind. Being agile doesn’t protect you from this: requirements still need to be elicited, discussed and refined. The AGILITY brochure shows you how requirements engineering and agility work together, from vision to Product Backlog to done.
You’re in the right place if this sounds familiar:
- Your Product Backlog is full of items that nobody on the team really understands anymore.
- User stories raise more questions in refinement than they answer.
- Estimates feel like guessing, because backlog items are too big and too vague.
- Sprint after sprint, features get built – but stakeholders keep saying „that’s not what we meant“.
Who is the AGILITY brochure for?
Particularly helpful if …
- You work as a product owner, requirements engineer or team member in an agile setup and want to raise your backlog quality.
- You want to connect solid requirements engineering with Scrum artifacts instead of choosing between them.
- You work in an international team and need shared English terms for agile requirements work.
- You want an overview of scaling options before your organization grows beyond one team.
Less suitable if …
- You are still looking for the fundamentals of requirements engineering – then start with our free RE-Primer.
- You expect an in-depth manual for one specific scaling framework – the brochure gives you an overview, not a certification course.
- You prefer reading in German – then our German Agilitäts-Broschüre is the better choice for you.
Free of charge – we’ll send the download link straight to your inbox.
3 reasons the download is worth it
RE and agility, connected instead of opposed
The brochure shows that agility doesn’t make requirements engineering obsolete – it changes when and how you work on requirements, from vision and stakeholders to the finished product.
Concrete quality criteria for your backlog
DEEP for the Product Backlog, INVEST for backlog items and the Definition of Ready – criteria you can apply in your very next refinement.
From one team to scaled setups
Roadmaps, release planning and an overview of Scrum@Scale, LeSS, Nexus and SAFe – so requirements work keeps functioning when more teams join in.
What’s inside the AGILITY brochure
The brochure answers questions agile teams face every single sprint:
- Why doesn’t requirements engineering disappear in agile work – and what changes instead?
- How do goals, vision, stakeholders and system context give your Product Backlog direction?
- What makes a Product Backlog DEEP – and how do you keep it that way?
- When is a user story a good requirement – and when is it just a sentence?
- How do you decompose backlog items so they follow the INVEST principle?
- How do estimating, prioritizing, roadmaps and release planning fit together?
- Which options do Scrum@Scale, LeSS, Nexus and SAFe offer when several teams work on one product?
Who’s behind the AGILITY brochure
We SOPHISTs have been consulting, training and supporting companies in requirements engineering and systems engineering since 1996 – from automotive and medical technology to the public sector. Chris Rupp, founder of SOPHIST, helped shape the CPRE certification principle as a founding member of the IREB, and as a CPRE Platinum Partner we are still involved in developing the syllabi today. We actively share what we learn in projects, trainings and our books – the AGILITY brochure is part of our free WISSEN-for-free series. And if you want to go deeper after reading it, you’ll find trainings, consulting and hands-on project support with us.
Testimonials translated from the original German quotes.
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Agile requirements engineering in English – from vision and Product Backlog to user stories, DEEP, INVEST and scaled setups.
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