Three surveys conducted over a 6 year period revealed that medical device software organisations have difficulties in the area of requirements management, namely accommodating changes in requirements. Medical device software is traditionally developed in accordance with a plan driven software development lifecycle (SDLC). These SDLCs are rigid and inflexible to changes once the requirements man...

This paper discusses the impact of agile methodology in complex and modular interrelated projects based on the authors‟ practical experience and observations. With the advancement of Web technologies and complex computer systems, business applications are able to transcend boundaries in order to fully meet business requirements and comply with the legislation, policies and procedures. The succe...

Tougher competitive situations have led to increasing attention being paid to customer satisfaction, of which timely and customized services are the key concepts. As the product life cycle becomes shortened, high product quality becomes necessary for survival. Markets become highly diversi® ed and global, and continuous and unexpected change become the key factors for success. The need for a me...

The development of good quality software is a critical element of successful competition for today’s software market shares. However, software products are becoming larger and more complex; therefore, the development of quality software is neither easy nor rapid. Agile software development methods focus on generating early releases of working products. They aim to deliver business value immedia...

It is only less than a decade that agile SD methods were introduced and got popular steadily. The defined values in these methods and their outcomes have motivated many software producers to use these methods. Since migration from traditional software development methods to agile methods is growing highly, managers of the companies should be aware of problems, hindrances and challenges they may...

Agile development methods such as extreme programming (XP), SCRUM, Lean Software Development (Lean SD) and others have gained much popularity during the last years. Agile methodologies promise faster time-to-market, satisfied customers and high quality software. While these prospects are appealing, the suitability of agile practices to different domains and business contexts still remains uncle...

The need to rapidly deliver high quality software that meets the changing needs of stakeholders has driven the definition of methods, including Agile and Software Product Line approaches. Although many of the goals of such approaches are similar, they appear to differ significantly in principles and practices. The purpose of this work is to compare Agile and Software Product line approaches fro...

Designing effective Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tools in an Electronic Health Record (EHR) can prove challenging due to complex clinical scenarios and changing requirements; application of agile principles and practices proves helpful in the development and delivery of effective CDS tools for use in clinical care. By applying agile project management methods such as short time-boxed iterati...

Agile software development in a distributed setting is challenging. The teams involved in the process face difficulties in communication, personnel selection, work culture, and knowledge management. The shortcomings associated with working in different time zones and the inabilities to develop trusting relationships between developers are well known. Companies often take recourse to agile softw...

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...