Papers on Agile Software Development methods are often focused on their applicability in commercial projects or organizations. There are no current studies that we know about addressing the application of these methods in research projects. The objective of this work is to describe the perception of researchers on the application of agile software development practices and principles for resear...

In this paper, we will focus on the importance of management of knowledge held by the organization’s human resources and gained through experience and practice. For this issue, we propose a model for software best practices’ integration in a Knowledge Management System (KMS) of a Software Development Community of Practices (SDCoP). This model aims on the one hand, to integrate human, organizati...

This paper describes the practical results of an experiment created in order to analyze the software process improvement by the use of the practices and rules of Extreme Programming methodology. In the experiment a group of 40 students in the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes took part to create a small system, to measure their productivity and to measure how much does this rules and pract...

One of the common challenges of an Extreme Programming (XP) team is to find strategies so to reinforce practices and increase velocity. Most practices have found at least one optimal strategy tested and approved practically by the community, while ‘sustainable pace’ is core tenet missing a clear strategy. The aim of the Pomodoro Technique (PT) is exactly to fill this gap. The PT is a timeboxing...

A standard description of growth stages for crops/plants is necessary not only for determining and improving cultural practices, but also to facilitate enhanced communication among producers, researchers, and educators. It also could help in unifying experimental results. Many different descriptions of growth stages are currently available for many crops, but there are no codes for sesame (Sesa...

This experience report describes our efforts to introduce agile development techniques incrementally into our customer’s organization in the National Cancer Institute and develop a partnering relationship in the process. The report addresses the steps we have taken not only to deploy the practices, but also to gain customer support for them. It addresses variations we have used to adapt to our ...

This paper describes the findings of a case study that explores the improvisation and bricolage in a structured process management environment. The research focuses on software developers in an embedded system development project. This investigation adopts an interpretive approach, which involves the collection and analysis of qualitative data. The research offers insights into a range of dimen...

This paper describes a pattern language for managing multi-site software projects which aims at minimizing the main problems present on the multi-site software development context. The practices and patterns of the proposed language were first identified from the literature and adapted according to the authors’ experience after running some multi-site software projects. This exercise has led to...