Since the Agile Manifesto, many organizations have explored agile development methods to replace traditional waterfall development. Interestingly, waterfall remains the most widely used practice, suggesting that there is something missing from the many “flavors” of agile methodologies. We explore seven of the most common practices to explore this, and evaluate each against a series of criteria ...

Agile methods are widely believed to have the potential to improve software processes. Given the variety of agile practices, organizations face difficult decisions on which ones to adopt. Recognizing that agile adoption is often motivated by strategic concerns such as market competitiveness or responsiveness to customer needs, this paper outlines a framework for the strategic analysis of agile ...

The agile approach to projects focuses more on close-knit teams than traditional waterfall projects, which means that aspects of group maturity become even more important. This psychological aspect is not much researched in connection to the building of an “agile team.” The purpose of this study is to investigate how building agile teams is connected to a group development model taken from soci...

Agile methods have impacted on software development by providing several changes on how software is developed. Agile values, principles and practices foster intra-team knowledge sharing. However, they do not inform how to cope with that across organizational levels. This study seeks to understand inter-team knowledge sharing effectiveness in agile software development organizations that employ ...

Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. In addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. The main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...

Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. In addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. The main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...

Software developers and project managers are struggling to assess the appropriateness of agile processes to their development environments. This paper identifies limitations that apply to many of the published agile processes in terms of the types of projects in which their application may be problematic. INTRODUCTION As more organizations seek to gain competitive advantage through timely deplo...

Formal Model Driven Engineering (MDE) can be considered incongruent with Agile methodologies. However, with the advent of Agile, Software Engineering educators have an obligation to teach Agile development. Many instructors do so by employing experiential learning through Agile classrooms and projects. Teaching formal MDE and convincing students of its benefits can be challenging in such enviro...

Many software companies are interested in using Agile methods in their software projects. Contrary to traditional software development methods, Agile methods are people oriented. This fact shows the significant role of individuals in these methods. Increasing prevalence of Agile methods forces software companies to consider people related factors as critical issues in adoption and transition to...

Organizations delivering offshore software development services have traditionally focused on CMMI framework to deliver quality software. With agile methodologies gaining more wide spread acceptance, such organizations cannot stay away from them. There are concerns about combining agile methodologies with offshoring. There are also concerns about mismatch of agile methodologies with CMMI framew...