The conventional software metrics are not directly adaptable to agile approach due to their intrinsic differences in the focus, goals and process of software development. Subsequently, this paper examines the current state of agile-metrics initiatives in a specific product line of a multinational technology company. Using qualitative interviews based data from five stakeholders the study examin...

Agile Methods and Component-Based Software Engineering are two effective approaches to build software products. This chapter describes the challenges of the Agile Methods when applied in conjunction with Component-Based Software Engineer, and how the latter can contribute to the former. Then, it presents CLARiFi (CLear And Reliable Information for Integration), an “agile” approach for retrievin...

Agile Software Development has put a new focus on the question of how to share knowledge among members of software development teams. In contrast to heavy-weight, document-centric approaches, agile approaches rely on face-to-face communication for knowledge transfer. Pure face-to-face communication is not feasible when applying agile processes in a virtual team setting. In this paper, we argue ...

Agile software development, despite its novelty, is an important domain of research within software engineering discipline. Agile proponents have put forward a great deal of anecdotal evidence to support the application of agile methods in various application domains and industry sectors. Scientifically grounded empirical evidence is, however, still very limited. Most scientific research to dat...

This chapter presents a teaching framework for agile quality—that is, the way quality issues are perceived in agile software development environments. The teaching framework consists of nine principles, the actual implementation of which is varied and should be adjusted for different specific teaching environments. This chapter outlines the principles and addresses their contribution to learner...

While software is so important for all facets of the modern world, software development itself is not a perfect process. Agile software engineering methods have recently emerged as a new and different way of developing software as compared to the traditional methodologies. However, their success has mostly been anecdotal, and research in this subject is still scant in the academic circles. This...

The Vortex of Continuous Development of Embedded Systems: An Inquiry into Agility Orchestration BY David Anthony Bishop May 6, 2014 Committee Chair: Richard Baskerville Major Academic Unit: Robinson College of Business Agile methodologies have become a popular and widely accepted method for managing software development. Since the inception of the Agile Manifesto over ten years ago, agile devel...

The agile approach to projects focuses more on close-knit teams than traditional waterfall projects, which means that aspects of group maturity become even more important. This psychological aspect is not much researched in connection to the building of an “agile team.” The purpose of this study is to investigate how building agile teams is connected to a group development model taken from soci...

Agile methods provide an organization or a team the flexibility to adopt a selected subset of principles and practices based on their culture, their values, and the types of systems that they develop. More specifically, every organization or team implements a customized agile method, tailored to better accommodate its needs. However, the extent to which a customized method supports the organiza...