Maturity models are used to guide improvements in the software engineering field and a number of maturity models for agile methods have been proposed in the last years. These models differ in their underlying structure prescribing different possible paths to maturity in agile software development, neglecting the fact that agile teams struggle to follow prescribed processes and practices. Our ob...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world faces profound changes in many aspects, especially marketing competition, technological innovations and customer demands. A world-wide dispersion of education and technology has led to intense and increasingly global competition and an accelerated rate of change in the marketplace and innovation. There is a continuing fragmentation of mass...

the requirements management and development are very important parts and activities in the software development life cycle, and the “Agile” is one of the most common and widely used software life cycle models. But applying agile methodology most probably shows that, it contains some problems related to requirements management and development. This paper suggests a new software development life ...

Agile processes focus on facilitating early and fast production of working code, and are based on software development process models that support iterative, incremental development of software. Although agile methods have existed for a number of years now, answers to questions concerning the suitability of agile processes to particular software development environments are still often based on...

Agile methods have been adopted by many information systems development (ISD) teams and organizations in recent years. However, while agile method research is growing, many studies lack a strong theoretical and conceptual base. Innovation adoption theories provide new perspectives on analysing agile methods. This paper is based on an exploratory study of the application of innovation theory to ...

Agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) have emerged as a major thrust in the computer software development arena. Almost contemporaneously, an organisational theory highly aligned with the values of agile methodologies has mutated from the ‘restructuring’ paradigm. This paper presents an overview of agile methodologies and the key features of the agile corporation, exploring the s...

Abstract— This paper deals with the comparative study of agile processes. The paper will serve as guide to other software development process models. Agile processes have important applications in the areas of software project management, software schedule management, etc. In particular the aim of agile processes is to satisfy the customer, faster development times with lower defects rate. This...

Flexibility has emerged as an important requirement in the design of business processes. Research on process flexibility, however, has traditionally been focused on the intrinsic capability of a process to adapt to a new environment (e.g. workflow escalation, ad-hoc modeling). This paper proposes to extend the existing body of research by studying the extrinsic drivers for process flexibility, ...

Yahoo! is a great proving ground for Agile. Since the introduction of Agile methods and practices into the company over five years ago, many contests of the Agile process have played out across the expansive Yahoo! software development landscape. Throughout its history, the spirit of Agile has survived, often in surprising and unexpected ways. Whether being mandated from the executive-level or ...

Agile Software development methodology is most emerging in software development, there has been a significant contribution from many researchers towards estimating the size, cost, schedule, effort and duration. However, the approaches reported in the literature lack in considering the evolution of biological systems for better optimization in agile. Here Agile Estimation Plan method determines ...