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...

As Cloud Computing provides agile and scalable IT infrastructure, QoS-assured services and customizable computing environment, it increases the call for agile and dynamic deployment and governance environments over multi-cloud infrastructure. By now, governance and Non Functional Properties (such as security, QoS...) are managed in a static way, limiting the global benefits of deploying service...

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...

Context: The management of software development productivity is a key issue in software organizations, where the major drivers are lower cost and shorter time-to-market. Agile methods, including Extreme Programming and Scrum, have evolved as “light” approaches that simplify the software development process, potentially leading to increased team productivity. However, little empirical research h...

Nowadays, many individuals and teams involved on projects are already using agile development techniques as part of their daily work. However, we have much less experience in how to scale and manage agile practices in distributed software development. Distributed and global development– that requiring attention to many technical, organizational, and cultural issues as the teams interact to coop...

Abstract The product manager (PM) role is well established in leading technological companies, such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. PMs are responsible for integrating technical, design, business perspectives when developing software products portfolios. In agile methods (e.g., Scrum), similar responsibilities linked to the Product Owner (PO) role. contrast, large-scale agile, one c...

The project manager has been a ubiquitous feature of traditional software development projects. However, agile software development (ASD) methods which emphasize selforganizing teams and rapid response to change have done away with the project manager’s title. New job titles such as the scrum master and product owner have been introduced instead. It is unclear as to what extent the “project man...

Ever since agile software development was introduced in the millennium shift, it has become a controversial software engineering topic with practitioners and researchers arguing about the benefits of it. The opinions have been widely divergent, on one side the supporters of the plan-driven predictable Software Process Improvement (SPI) embracing repeatable processes and continuous improvements,...

Agile methods depend on active communication and effective knowledge sharing among team members for producing high quality working software systems in short releases and iterations. However, effective communication in Distributed Agile Development (DAD) can be challenging due to a number of different factors, such as physical locations, multi-cultures and time-zones. The agile body of knowledge...

The Agile Software Development paradigm has become increasingly popular in the last few years, since it claims lower costs, better productivity, better quality and better business satisfaction. Supply chain management (SCM) is a complex software development project. Owing to its scope and uncertain, complex and unstable requirements, it is not possible to develop it with predictable software de...