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The growth in popularity of Agile methods plus a dissatisfaction of Government agencies with traditional software development methods have stimulated the adoption of Agile Methods. The action research approach was used in this work to assess the implementation of a process for the Management of Agile Development Demands - whose original acronym in Portuguese is 'GeDDAS' - for a software factory in...
This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature survey and a web based survey on the use of Scrum in offshore software development (OSD) in Sri Lankan context. The trend in the recent software development industry is to move towards OSD. Issues and challenges related to OSD have to be solved to gain success. Scrum has gained a significant attention due to its flexible approach to managing...
The selection of a software development methodology is vital activity in any software project. It has a great impact on customer satisfaction and business welfare. Normally the selection is based on experience or in some cases a rational. In the third world countries and especially in Sudan, where this research is conducted, the choice of a software methodology is always a struggle in software companies...
The agile model of software development has been mainstream for several years, and is now in a phase where its principles and practices are maturing. The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of an industry survey aimed at understanding how maturation is progressing. The survey was taken across 40 software development companies in Northern Ireland at the beginning of 2012. The paper describes...
This paper focuses on the management of the Agile projects running under Fixed Price Contracts. On May 2008 Exigen Services announced the launch of Innovative Fixed-Price Agile Package. Flex-agility is a packaged services offering which combines Agile methodologies with customer-aligned governance and fixed priced commercial terms. This package provides customers certainty in on-time and on-budget...
This experience report titled, `The main challenges of implementing fixed-price agile projects for corporate customers' deals with the difficulties development teams encounter in delivering fixed-price agile projects for traditional corporate clients. The report also lays out the rationale for the agile approach to fixed-price contracts, and cites examples of successful implementations. The main challenges...
Agile practices are used more commonly in commercial projects. The results of such practices are dependent on many internal and external factors in projects and organisations. In this paper we present the key results of a study of 18 commercial projects based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of data collected. As a research methodology, we use the Goal Question Metric approach.Based on the...
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