Agile software development is finding a new dimension in software development process models. As tools and techniques used to develop software has been changed drastically. Software development processes need to keep pace with changing technologies and new demands from clients. Today’s changing business needs have given rise to adaption of structures, strategies, and policies to suit the new en...

Large projects are increasingly adopting agile development practices, and this raises new challenges for research. The workshop on principles of large-scale agile development focused on central topics in large-scale: the role of architecture, inter-team coordination, portfolio management and scaling agile practices. We propose eight principles for large-scale agile development, and present a re...

Agile software development plays a very significant role in software projects. Agile software project is a refined approach to design and direct project processes. An agile project is finished in short sections called iterations. This paper introduces a survey of machine learning approaches for predicting failure of agile software projects. It reviews the uses of machine learning techniques suc...

This chapter is aimed at comprehensively analyzing and defining agile methodologies of software development from a software quality assurance perspective. A unique way of analyzing agile methodologies to reveal the similarities that the authors of the methods never tell you is introduced. The chapter starts by defining agile methodologies from three perspectives: a theoretical definition, a fun...

Proponents of agile processes claim that agile practices result in higher quality software while allowing the flexibility to respond to evolving user requirements. Yet, to the best of our knowledge, no empirical study has really confirmed that benefits accrue to those who use agile processes. Grounded in the agility and diffusion of innovations literature, this research introduces a measure of ...

Agile processes can be applied to any software process for effective response to changing requirements during the development process and effective communication among stakeholders. There is lack of surveys related to agile processes in large web development enterprises in the world and the current state of adoption of agile processes by large enterprises is still unknown. A survey has been con...

Agile Modeling provides a set of best practices of “light-weight” modeling to support the modeling process on a macro level within the agile development teams. The objective of this paper is to analyze the potential of using Enterprise Modeling in agile development projects to address some of the existing challenges of agile projects.

Software quality is one of our most important software concerns. Agile methods may produce software faster but we also need to know how they meet our quality requirements. In this paper we compare the waterfall model with agile processes to show how agile methods achieve software quality. We also show how agile methods attain quality under time pressure and in an unstable requirements environme...

In mobile communications age, environment changes rapidly, the requirements change is the software project must face challenge. Able to overcome the impact of requirements change, software development risk can be effectively decreased. In order to reduce software requirements change risk, the paper investigates the major software development models and recommends the adaptable requirements chan...

Agile methodologies such as XP have emerged as a major thrust in the computer software development arena. Almost contemporaneously, an organisational theory highly aligned with the values of agile methodologies has mutated from the ‘restructuring’ paradigm. This paper presents an overview of agile methodologies and the key features of the agile corporation, exploring the synergistic relationshi...