Agile methodologies between software development and music production: an empirical study

Over the past 20 years agile methodologies revolutionized Information Technology, offering tremendous opportunities for development of Software Engineering as an independent discipline. More specifically, contributed to enhancing effectiveness and speed production process well improving productivity motivations software developers organized in high performing teams. The philosophy can be has been applied different contexts across several domains. This work analyses relationship between Agile used by engineers practices pursued musicians their daily lives. Our findings suggests that collaborative, strongly planned life cycle models (such Waterfall, V-model, iterative, Spiral) are not adequate describe musical composers. is because requires a lot flexibility, which such intrinsically lack, they oriented ensuring some form monitorable progress. Interestingly, our also show nine out 12 Principles consciously or unconsciously followed practices. there deep connections these two prima facie fields, both very creative. Even though await replication, possibly with larger statistical samples, contribute open up new strand research field.