This paper highlights the theoretical aspect of agile practices from the cognitive learning perspective. Three cognitive strategies – elaboration, organization, and problem solving – underpin key strategies in agile practices to promote better understanding in learning software development activities. Agile practices such as planning games, pair programming, refactoring, coding standard and sim...

“Change is inevitable, growth is optional” said by a John C. Maxwell and in software engineering this sentence exists very truly. In last decades, remarkable progress has been done and Agile Software Development is the result of that changing environmental needs and efforts of researchers to overcome the traditional model of software development. Agile development is modern approach which deals...

In this article we investigate the problem of applying agile practices into safetycritical projects. The goal of our research is to investigate potential benefits from introducing agile practices into safety-critical environment and to present a solution providing for balancing agile approach with more disciplined assurance techniques, bringing the best of the two worlds together. In this artic...

Agile processes emphasize operational system code rather than its documentation. Ironically, however, some traditional documentation artefacts come to support system-stakeholders interaction, which is another core aspect of agile development processes. In this chapter, the authors examine the relationship between system development and knowledge documentation. They develop an approach that enab...

This research examines how knowledge management elements of systems development projects are adapted to correspond with the increasing use of agile practices. Using a single, longitudinal case study, we draw on interview data from an initial CRM implementation that used a traditional approach, followed by a second project phase employing a hybrid agile-traditional approach. Oriented using the c...

This paper focuses on providing a multi-dimensional view of success factors in agile software development projects. This paper starts by surveying the literature for the success factors of agile software development projects. Therefore, it surveys the success factors that were published in research papers, articles, and technical reports related to actual agile projects. For facilitating the un...

Like other professions, project management is constantly developing, new techniques are emerging, while newer, more effective approaches are being established. As an innovative modern approach, agile project management is most frequently mentioned and many experts argue that it is becoming the project management of the 21st century. The approach was developed in the field of software developmen...

Some agile projects succeed, some fail miserably. Research shows that time does not necessarily cure such ills and there can be many complex underlying reasons. Evaluating the ways agility is supported across three supposedly agile projects reveals a myriad of organizational, human and political issues. Using a novel approach to assess agile projects from first principles, this paper outlines s...

We present an empirical study on facilitating the adoption of usercentred design (UCD) in small Agile companies. To this end, we introduced a curated set of qualitative design practices in an Agile organisation, engaging developers in a lightweight series of workshops. Our results suggest that the approach followed enhanced internal communication and promoted a concrete shift towards a more use...