The agile methods were investigated to determine the factors making up their target environment. A theoretical model of the target environment for agile methods was developed and then tested using a multi-case study. Data from nine software development projects, both agile and non-agile, was gathered from project leaders. Then a cross-case analysis of each factor in the theoretical model explor...

Accelerating development schedules is increasingly important in a competitive world. Reduced time-to-market is a key response to competitive threats in the commercial sphere, and rapid response in deploying military systems may save lives in a geopolitical environment characterized by rapidly emerging and ever-changing physical threats. Agile/lean development methodologies show promise in provi...

Agile Model Driven Development (Agile MDD) is an approach that aims to combine Agile development and Model Driven Development (MDD). It is the intention of our research to analyse the impact and the challenges of combining Agile and MDD and try to improve this approach by increasing its adaptability by proposing a framework that facilitate Agile and MDD. This includes essential procedures, reco...

Since 2001 agile software development approaches are being adopted across a wide range of organizations and are now being applied at scale. There are eight factors to consider – team size, geographical distribution, entrenched culture, system complexity, legacy systems, regulatory compliance, organizational distribution, governance and enterprise focus – when scaling agile. Luckily a collection...

Agile methodologies are gaining popularity in industry although they compromise a mix of accepted and controversial software engineering practices. Both global software development and agile approaches have gained significant popularity. Companies even show interest in applying agile approaches in distributed development to combine the advantages of both approaches. This is done despite their d...

Trust is an important aspect of any software development team, but particularly with self-managing teams as team members are very dependent on one another. Agile teams are considered to be self-managing and they employ many different agile practices to function as an agile team. While there have been many studies of trust in software development teams few have examined trust in an agile context...

This talk discusses how agile methods can be used for managing high-risk, time-sensitive R&D-oriented new product development (NPD) projects with demanding customers and fast-changing market conditions. It establishes the context, provides a definition, and describes the value-system for lean and agile project management. It provides a brief survey of popular lean and agile project management a...

To maximize the velocity of business value delivery, Alistair Cockburn talks of having a process that is “barely sufficient.” At Landmark Graphics we developed some guidelines as to what "barely sufficient" means for our various software projects. We examined over 60 projects and observed two primary attributes that influenced the type of process used: complexity and uncertainty. We provide a s...

In the last few years, software production has dramatically changed: the Internet, globalization, alternative development practices like open source have been important drivers and there are also pressures from ever more educated and informed customers for ever more stringent needs and ever more rapid delivery of solutions, etc. Recently, a set of new software development processes has emerged,...

~en: are a nwn~r of agile and traditional methodologies for software development. Agilists provide agile principles and agile values to characterize the agile methods but there is no clear and inclusive defmition of agile methods; subsequently it is not feasible to draw a clear distinction between traditional and agile sofu:vare development methods in.~ractice. ~e purpose of this paper is to ex...