Taking Seriously Software Projects Inception Through Games

Inherent properties of games, such as rules, goals and interaction, have made them popular to address challenges and sort obstacles in a wide variety of contexts. Within Software Engineering, a challenging activity of the software development process is the Inception phase, in which stakeholders’ needs, required functionalities, objectives, risks and constraints of a software product are established. An alternative to optimize stakeholders’ participation during the Inception phase and make more efficient its outcomes is to do it through games.

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