Business value is a key concept in agile software development. This paper presents results of a case study on how business value and its creation is perceived in the context of agile projects. Our overall conclusion is that the project participants almost never use an explicit and structured approach to guide the value creation throughout the project. Still, the application of agile methods in ...

In the last 10 years, Agile methods and practices have emerged as an alternative for software development. Different "flavors" of Agile have appeared ranging from project management to tests organization. These approaches have being gaining popularity and involve now a solid option for organizations developing software, but what about Public Administrations? Is Agile a suitable option for devel...

This article deals with the application of an agile approach to projects in service designused consultancies LEMME -UFSC group partnership Sebrae/SC. The methodological procedure used for case study (LEMMEX) adapts adaptation flowchart Teixeira, Henrique, Braglia & Gonçalves (2018); developed from approaches Garret (2010) and Benedet Hoppe (2015). standardized method optimization analysis t...

In the recent few years more and more software development organizations are striving to adopt agile software development methods and techniques. Successful agile adoption leads to producing higher quality software, enhance developers moral and at a lower cost than the traditional water wall model approach. However, Agile adoption always comes with special challenges and accordingly, fundamenta...

Risk management in software engineering has become a recognized project management practice but it seems that not all companies are systematically applying it. At the same time, agile methods have become popular, partly because proponents claim that agile methods implicitly reduce risks due to for example, more frequent and earlier feedback, shorter periods of development time and easier predic...