The size and functionality of the software in a modern car increases with each new generation. To stay competitive automotive manufactures must deliver new and better features to their customers at the same speed or faster than their competitors. A traditional waterfall process is not suitable for this speed challenge a more agile way of working is desirable. By introducing MDE we have seen how...

Automation of any organization is much needed for its development in today’s world. Education institutes like university are also need to get automated and improve their working manner through automation. Testing is the major part of the installation of automated environment to assure the quality of the university and its department. In this paper the tester’s side efforts are presented for the...

This article is focused on application of agile principles during adoption of Business Process Management (BPM) in an organization. We propose some agile techniques for gathering requirements and iterative process design. Such techniques help to obtain realistic processes which are easily adaptable to changing business requirements and do not restrict organization’s flexibility. We also discuss...

In dynamic and turbulent business environment, the need for success and survival of any organization is the ability of adapting to changes efficiently and cost-effectively. So, for developing software applications, one of the methods is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methodology and other is Agile Methodology. Since embracing changes is the indispensable concept of SOA development as well ...

Most organizations that depend on software are pursuing more flexible architectures and more agile life-cycle processes to increase business flexibility. What does agility look like, and how do we measure it? A truly agile project or organization should experience changes that are more straightforward and more predictable. Consequently, improvements are best measured by gauging the change trend...

Overview: Agile project management aims to increase the flexibility of product development processes through increased interaction among stakeholders. Since its introduction in software industry 20 years ago, has progressively spread other contexts, even though large-scale organizations seem struggle switch toward Agile-only practices. In these we see an integration traditional Stage-Gate manag...

Agile practitioners pride themselves on highly productive, responsive, low ceremony, lightweight, tacit knowledge processes with little waste, adaptive planning and frequent iterative delivery of value. It is often assumed that CMMI compliant processes need to be heavyweight, bureaucratic, slow moving, high ceremony and plan driven. Agile developers often skeptically perceive formal process imp...

This paper describes a research-in-progress that aims to explore the applicability and implications of open innovation practices in two firms – one that employs agile development methods and another that utilizes open source software. The open innovation paradigm has a lot in common with open source and agile development methodologies. A particular strength of agile approaches is that they move...

Within agile software development there is a growing concern with how development organizations can integrate usability work into agile practices. The concern occurs as frustration experienced in practice by agile developers and usability designers, and it also occurs as a gap in the research literature. With this paper we report from a case study in a software company that is committed to agil...