Agile software development has caught the attention of both practitioners and academics in recent years. In spite of many anecdotes and papers describing lessons learnt the theoretical foundation of agile software development has not been systematically articulated. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to study agile software development based on the theory of complex adaptive systems. Th...

The competitive pressures of today’s businesses require delivery of software solutions in the shortest time possible. Software systems that once took years to deliver can now be created in months. The enabler of this transformation is the agile software process. We will look at the characteristics of an agile process. Specifically, we will look at what makes a software process agile and how dif...

Agile Crosses the Chasm to the Enterprise The benefits of Agile methods are becoming more obvious and compelling. While the most popular practices were developed and proven in small team environments, the interest and need for using Agile in the enterprise is growing rapidly. That’s largely because Agile provides quantifiable, “step-change” improvements in the “big three” software development m...

Agile Processes and Formal Methods (FM), water and oil, impossible mixture? Yes at first sight. Nevertheless, being formal methods weight processes and being agile processes informal approaches to software development, it is worth to study how much formal can be an agile process like Extreme Programming (XP) and how much agile can be a formal method. On our view, some XP practices are suitable ...

Team dynamics are patterns of interaction among team members that determine the performance of the team. Success of Agile software development depends on team interaction. Team interactions are, however, affected in distributed teams. We conducted a Grounded Theory study to investigate team interaction in distributed Agile teams involving 40 Agile practitioners from 24 different software compan...

In response to the rapid changes in users’ requirements, a new generation of information systems (IS), namely, agile IS, has emerged. agile IS, defined as information systems developed using agile methods, are characterized by frequent upgrades with a small number of new features released periodically. The existing research on agile IS has mainly focused on the developers’ perspective with litt...

regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.in this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...

The objective of this research is to provide organizations with a process that can guide projects in adopting more agile software development approaches. The result of this research is a process framework consisting of various components that work together to provide a roadmap and guide for organizations wishing to adopt agile practices during project development. Figure 1 illustrates the stage...

Presently Agile methods courses taught in universities focus primarily on providing hands-on experience of the process of development but ignore the evolution of, and theories behind, the Agile practices. “Without theory we are just groping in chaos” (Deming, 1986). Knowing the ‘why” in addition to the “how” of Agile methods will help develop reflective skills and give students an edge as they ...

Agile software development methodologies have recently gained widespread popularity. The Agile Manifesto states valuing “individuals, and interactions over processes, and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding to change over following a plan” (Fowler, 2002). However, little is known about how effective and effic...