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Stakeholder Perceptions of the Adoption of Continuous Integration – A Case Study

Continuous integration is an important support mechanism for the fast delivery of new features. However, its adoption in industry has often been problematic, partly due to social challenges. However, there […]

The Impact of Human Factors on Agile Projects

This research aims to provide more evidence about the impact of human factors in agile software projects. In this light, we have conducted a systematic literature review (SLR) to investigate […]

Symbolic Innovation in Agile Transformations

Much of the empirical research on agile transformations concentrates on the success factors for effective change management. Although these factors are essential in establishing beneficial norms and practices, the existing […]

Synthesizing Continuous Deployment Practices Used in Software Development

Continuous deployment speeds up the process of existing agile methods, such as Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP) through the automatic deployment of software changes to end-users upon passing of automated […]

Predicting Release Time for Open Source Software based on the Generalized Software Reliability Model

There is a significant challenge that how to predict the possible release date of the target software having enough reliability in agile development where incremental development and small software releases […]

Managing Technical Debt in Software Projects Using Scrum: An Action Research

Ward Cunningham in his experience report presented at the OOPSLA’92 conference introduced the metaphor of technical debt. This metaphor is related to immature, incomplete or inadequate artifacts in the software […]

Lean CMMI: An Iterative and Incremental Approach to CMMI-Based Process Improvement

Software Process Improvement (SPI) projects incorporate organization transition risks which may cause many process improvement initiatives to fail. To mitigate these risks, an iterative and incremental approach called ‘Process Increments’ […]

Gap Analysis between State of Practice & State of Art Practices in Agile Software Development

Agile software development can be considered as a development methodology that suits the situations where requirements are changing frequently. Most of the literature about agile is specific to one or […]

Explaining Agility with a Process Theory of Change

While Agile approaches have been widely adopted, our theoretical understanding of their foundations and impacts remains limited. This is due to conflating two entirely different meanings of “Agile.” We therefore […]

Development of Complex Software with Agile Method

Agile Software Development (ASD) has been in the mainstream through methodologies such as XP and Scrum enabling them to be applied in the development of complex and reliable software systems. […]

Agile Communicators: Cognitive Apprenticeship to Prepare Students for Communication-Intensive Software Development

We report on our efforts to enhance our undergraduate computer science and software engineering curriculum, promoting what we term agile communication through practice in inquiry, critique, and reflection. We are […]

A Lean Design Methodology for Business Models and Its Application to IoT Business Model Development

We propose a lean design methodology for business models, which repeatedly designs business-model hypotheses in researching manner; moreover, with which corporate businesses can create new business value utilizing IT. Both […]

The Prevalence of UX Design in Agile Development Processes in Industry

The gap between how the academic world develops usability and user experience (UX) methods, and how the industry employs these methods is perceived as both broad and deep. But is […]

Visual Management and Blind Software Developers

With the popularization of Agile methods for developing and managing software projects, many organizations have been using visual management tools for planning, executing and evaluating their activities. These visual management […]

Understanding Digital Cardwall Usage

In Agile software development, key artifacts used to support the process are the User Story (usually recorded on a Storycard) and Story Cardwall (usually a dedicated portion of a wall). […]

AGILE ux Model – Towards a Reference Model on Integrating UX in Developing Software Using Agile Methodologies

This paper presents a maturity model for integrating agile methods and user experience in the software development cycle that may be suitable for small companies. The proposal is in line […]

Deepening Our Understanding of Communities of Practice in Large-Scale Agile Development

Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of experts who share a common interest or topic and collectively want to deepen their knowledge. The use of CoPs is one of the […]

Using Agile Story Points as an Estimation Technique in CMMI Organizations

Story Point is a relative measure heavily used for agile estimation of size. The team decides how big a point is, and based on that size, determines how many points […]

Work Motivational Challenges Regarding the Interface Between Agile Teams and a Non-Agile Surrounding Organization: A case study

There are studies showing what happens if agile teams are introduced into a non-agile organization, e.g. higher overhead costs and the necessity of an understanding of agile methods even outside […]

Integrating Agile and User-Centered Design

Agile software engineering and user-centered design are two important development processes for ensuring that an application has good user experience. However, integrating these two different processes into a single Agile-UX […]

Network Analysis for Software Patterns including Organizational Patterns in Portland Pattern Repository

Organizational patterns are known as the basis for Agile software development movement. Patterns usually form a network having relationships among them to support users understand and utilize patterns efficiently and […]

Adapting to Changes in a Project’s DNA

We present a 15-month descriptive case study on a real-world Scrum process transformation from a single-site to a distributed development environment in a medium-sized software development organization in Austria. The […]

Software Kaizen: Using Agile to Form High Perfomance Software Development Teams

The process of teaching Software Engineering has undergone questions about the methods that have been used in training activities. Recent studies show that these methods involve traditional teaching strategies, such […]

Agile Methods Adoption on Software Development – a Pilot Review

Scientific publications throughout the years describe study cases and experience reports from organizations that have been through the agile adoption process. At the same time, frameworks and generic methods for […]

Distributing Expertise in Agile Software Development Projects

The distribution of expertise in Agile teams is vital to enable team knowledge to be shared, preserved, and accessed when it is needed. Most studies emphasize knowledge sharing but a […]

Impediment Impact Diagrams

Achieving a smooth flow of work through the system is a goal for many teams and organizations that embrace agile and lean approaches. However, the flow of work faces many […]

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