Agile development methods and their associated practices have become well-accepted within industry, and the success of projects using these methods is higher than traditional methods [1]. However, the optimal environmental parameters that suggest a fit between a project’s requirements and needed outcomes, and the use of agile methods is still a matter requiring further research. This is due to ...

This paper discusses the adoption level of and experiences from using agile practices in three software development projects in a large Telecom company. The use of agile practices was more emergent than planned. Project managers and developers simply used practices they considered efficient and natural. The most widely adopted agile practices were to measure progress by working code, to have de...

How to make teams perform well is increasingly important in software development, as agile development methods prescribe development in small teams. Team performance has been studied in a number of research fields, and there are many models of what enables team performance. A central question then is how relevant these models are for agile development teams. This article investigates the follow...

Although there are a number of purported benefits of agile systems development methods over traditional forms, many in the Information Systems Development (ISD) community highlight the difficulties that the dynamic, turbulent nature of agile development environments may present. One prominent difference compared to traditional ISD projects is the emphasised presence of the customer in decision-...

Verification activities are necessary to ensure that the requirements are specified in a correct way. However, until now requirements verification research has focused on traditional up-front requirements. Agile or just-in-time requirements are by definition incomplete, not specific and might be ambiguous when initially specified, indicating a different notion of ‘correctness’. We analyze how v...

The efficiency of Agile software development is directly associated with the decision-making among Agile team members. This article aimed at improving the decision-making process in Agile software development. In order to answer the research questions, we designed a mixed method approach. We identified three categories of challenges and provided related solutions of decision-making process in A...

Project management in the information systems industry has had a poor record of delivering value and has consequently seized upon the recent evolutional of agile project management. What is meant by agile project management, from whence it originated and whether it has further applicability are not widely understood. The construction industry also has a less than perfect project management reco...

Existing knowledge about agile manufacturing (AM) and an agile workforce was reviewed in order to extend the concept of agility to the whole enterprise. The frameworks that describe other elements of the enterprise besides manufacturing, or contain attributes that could be applied to all enterprise structures were also included into the review. The review identified a large number of papers rel...

The relationship between agile methods and Software Engineering Institute’s CMM approach is often debated. Some authors argue that the approaches are compatible, while others have criticized the application of agile methods from the CMM perspective. Only few CMM based assessments have been performed on projects using agile approaches. This paper explores an empirical case where a project using ...

Agile information systems development (ISD) is a people-centered approach that emphasizes frequent interaction and genuine co-operation between customers and developers. While business relationships are the norm in the workplace, agile ISD leads to the creation of close interpersonal relationships. Drawing on relationship theory and friendship literature we propose a theoretical framework of th...