There is a lack of formal risk management techniques in agile software development methods Scrum. The need to manage risks in agile project management is also identified by various authors. Authors conducted a survey to find out the current practices in agile project management. Furthermore authors discus the new integration framework of Scrum and PRINCE2 with focus on risk management. Enrichme...

Requirements management is one of the cornerstone activities in software development. Agile methodologies use dedicated methods, techniques and artifacts in order to implement this activity. Remarkably, Backlog Grooming is the activity of managing and welcoming changing requirements in SCRUM. However, current industrial practices in agile development still tend to render this process in the sha...

Software process simulation modeling is increasingly being used to address a variety of issues from the strategic management of software development, to supporting process improvements, to software project management training. The scope of software process simulation applications ranges from narrow focused portions of the life cycle to longer term product evolutionary models with broad organiza...

The importance of ICT to all aspects of university business cannot be overemphasised. However the devolved nature of university management, and particularly of research, results in tensions between the central university ICT services (including elearning), striving to provide resilient and cost-effective services for all, and the academic communities that need agile and leading-edge ICTs to ser...

Configuration management is an important aspect of an efficient development process. As with other aspects of software development, configuration management happens in the presence of social and organizational constraints. The various goals of configuration management (stability, developer independence and interaction, etc.) sometimes conflict with each other. This paper presents three configur...

Knowledge transfer is one of the key problem areas in knowledge management. This paper focuses on the transfer of knowledge about the software development process. There is an aim to improve process knowledge and one way of doing it is to introduce commercial development methods. However, doing this is not an easy task. We present a study of how such an introduction of a widespread method was c...

This teaching case provides a practical illustration of the challenges in executing large-scale ITbased change. It describes how the Commonwealth Bank of Australia replaced its service and sales systems between 2003 and 2006 with the goal of collating a “single view of client”. The case is an exemplar of staged incremental development. The sponsor set up multiple work streams and ran them as in...

Scrum is one of the agile methods gaining more relevance among academics and practitioners. It is mainly applied in the context of software development, which is a knowledge-intensive activity and depends on learning to evolve. Therefore, it becomes crucial to understand the question: Does Scrum implementation trigger a process of Organizational Learning? If ‘Yes’, how does the OL occur? This r...

In agile software development projects, customer representatives (CRs) are assigned by their business departments to work alongside the information systems development (ISD) for the duration of an agile project. Ideally, a CR should be co-located with the ISD team. The full article describes a competency model for effective CRs developed by the authors following interviews with agile developmen...

The adoption of agile software development methodologies may appear to be a rather straightforward process yielding instantly improved software in less time and increasingly satisfied customers. This paper will show that such a notion is a misunderstanding and can be harmful to small software development organisations. A more reasonable approach involves a careful risk assessment and framework ...