Moving towards agility in a bureaucratic environment
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چکیده
Transitioning from waterfall to agile processes can be difficult especially for organizations lacking toplevel management support. To explore this topic, we collected qualitative and quantitative data about three projects at a government agency transitioning from a waterfall process to the IBM Rational Unified Process. The results of our analysis of this data identify some of the challenges organizations face in making process changes, and demonstrate that the iterative aspect of RUP together with investment into test teams and refactoring can succeed in improving software quality and software stability. Based on our data we also argue that RUP can provide gentle ways to introduce even lighter agile approaches into bureaucratic, trust challenged environments that initially are lacking management support for agility.
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