Agile methods and MDE are often considered to be polar opposites of each other. Agile methods are fast, adaptive, responsive; MDE is heavyweight, planfirst, and requires high up-front investment. But are agile methods and MDE really so contradictory? Or could they co-exist and even work together to maximize each other’s benefits? In this talk, I will reflect upon our recent study with two large...

In software development process, the requirements are not stable and keep on changing according to the customers. In such dynamic situations the developers are required to use dynamic approaches for software development. The agile methodology provides dynamic methods such as extreme programming, scrum, feature driven approach and dynamic system development method. Studies reveals agile methods ...

Agile software development methods have become increasingly popular in the last years. However, agile methods don’t specify explicitly how to deal with the quality requirements. Moreover there is little known about how organizations currently deal with this shortcoming. Based on several case studies this research will investigate real-world large-scale distributed agile projects to understand t...

Agile software development (Agile) is being practiced in software industry nowadays as it fits the current business environment which focuses on delivering software to market as quickly as possible. In addition, Agile practitioners claim that it produces software with good quality. Thus, our research aims to identify Agile practices that should be followed in order to produce good quality softw...

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions on the research activities presented at XP 2014, the 15th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, which was held May 26-30, 2014 in Rome, Italy. XP conferences are major supporters of the agile vision of software developers, the related multidisciplinary research, and bridging industria...

Finding out, analyzing, documenting, and checking requirements are important activities in all development approaches, including agile development. This paper discusses problems concerned with the conduction of requirements engineering activities in agile software development processes and suggests some improvements to solve some challenges caused by agile requirements engineering practices in ...

Agile Modeling (AM) provides a set of best practices of “lightweight” modeling to support the modeling process on a macro level within the agile development teams. At the core of AM is close collaboration with stakeholders which is similar to participative Enterprise Modeling (EM). Hence, the objective of this paper is to analyze the potential of using EM in agile development projects to addres...

today’s Scrum vision of agile so ware development to a disciplined agile solu on delivery. It begins with a brief overview of the agile so ware development movement and its implica ons. We then overview the Scrum method with its associated benefi ts and drawbacks, and then how to move beyond Scrum to a full delivery process framework called Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). DAD is a governed, h...

Globally distributed software development (GSD) and agile methods are two current and important trends in software and systems engineering. While agile methods seem to cope well with increasingly changing business environments, it is far from obvious how these light-weight processes can best contribute to GSD. In this paper, method rationale is proposed as an analytical tool to understand the v...

As the use of both agile and traditional methods continues to grow, the need for guidelines on how the two approaches may be used together will increase. This paper identifies the growth of both agile and formal approaches to project management then examines the origins and key elements of the two methods. The characteristics of software projects that lead to challenges in applying traditional ...