There is often a misconception that adopting and tailoring agile methods is straightforward resulting in improved products and increasingly satisfied customers. However, the empirical nature of agile methods means that potential practitioners need to carefully assess whether they are exposed to the risks that can make agile method adoption problematic. This is particularly the case with small s...

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The purpose of this document is to serve as a research proposal, which recommends a study to examine the effects of using agile methods on software project performance in dynamic and uncertain market conditions. Agile methods are an approach to software engineering, which are characterized by early customer involvement, flexible development processes, and iterative product releases. This propos...

Agile is rapidly becoming one of the most popular software development methodologies across the globe. Companies throughout the world are making considerable efforts to shift from the traditional software development methods towards the agile practices. Distributed software development is an increasingly vital development approach for software companies throughout the world, as it brings additi...

Business activities are rapidly changing now a days and there are increasingly complex requirements set on programming solutions. That puts traditional software development methods also called heavyweight behind and leads to the need for different approaches. Modern approach is called agile or lightweight. Dissertation will described the characteristics of some traditional and agile methodologi...

Nowadays, application of Service Oriented Architecture is increasing rapidly; especially since introduction of distributed electronic services on the web. SOA software has a modular manner and works as a collaboration of independent software components. As a result, e-service approach is sufficient for software with independent components, each of which may be developed by a different company. ...

Since their arrival on the software development scene, agile software development methods have been a source of intense study. One promising aspect of research in relation to agile methods is personality theory. Although there have been some studies utilizing personality theory, to date no research has been performed to investigate the potential link between personality attributes and preferenc...

Agile methods have emerged and become popular over last few years as a response to shortcomings of the waterfall process model. However, agile processes are stamped by some as chaotic processes and are placed in opposition to waterfall approaches. This paper uses the edge of chaos concept from complex adaptive systems theory as a theoretical lens to analyse the roles of structure and planning i...

Agile methods are lightweight, iterative software development frameworks used predominantly on smalland mid-sized software development projects. This article introduces a project structure and management practices creating Agile conditions for large software projects outsourced either offshore or onshore. Agility is achieved by slicing a large project into a number of small-sized projects worki...

The purpose of this paper is to present a model for measuring the relationship between the use of agile methods to manage the development of Internet websites and their quality. Agile methods are a general purpose approach for managing the development of new products, which are often associated with Internet software. Agile methods may be used for improving website quality by obtaining early cu...