The increasing growth of the Web field has promoted the development of a plethora of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches. These methodologies share a top-down approach: they start by modeling application content, then they define a navigational schema, and finally refine the latter to obtain presentation and rich behavior specifications. Such approach makes it difficult to acquire qu...

There is a growing trend towards the adoption of agile methods for information systems development in organisations due to the pressures for products and services to be faster to market. This paper examines the introduction and use of agile methods in two significantly different organizations; a bank and an international law firm. The adoption of agile methods in one organization was deemed a s...

Agile environment checks Organization’s capacity or flexibility to accept the changes. Working in agile development needs to check their process, effect in the collaboration with other processes present in the enterprise solution. But agile environment is unpredictable. Hence to measure the process agileness, soft computing approach is used. In this paper, Hybrid Neuro-fuzzy approach is propose...

From the mid ‘90s on, a number of Agile Methodologies have been proposed, most of them based on the basic values and principles summarised in the 2001 “Agile Manifesto”. These agile methodologies were aimed at small teams with severe project constraints (i.e. small project teams in the same location, the customer as a member of the project team, informal communication, test-driven approach, etc...

This report describes an investigation into best practices in agile software development. Agile software development methods represent the latest incarnation of software engineering methods designed to be user-centric, low cost, and focused on rapid delivery of high-quality software systems. This survey of empirical and theoretical studies of agile methods provides a summary of the practices fo...

Agile Software Development and the breed of Agile Methodologies (XP, SCRUM, DSDM, etc.) have gained popularity since 2001. Primarily founded as methodologies for software projects executed at a single location, Agile Methodologies have started showing promising results in multi-site projects too with many adopters and practitioners across the globe. For more than two decades, offshore delivery ...

Although the agile software development approaches have gained wide acceptance in practice, the concerns regarding the scalability and integration of agile practices in traditional large-scale system development projects are prevailing. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has emerged as a solution to address some of these concerns. Despite few encouraging results, case studies indicate several challe...

Document changes are center of focus in maintenance phase during software development life cycle (SDLC). In Agile development process, document maintenance become crucial as the focus is on technical maintenance. This paper presents a software requirements framework for document changes using reverse engineering approach. The framework is called XML Document Tracker (XML_DocTracker). Based on t...

The increasing growth of the Web field has promoted the development of a plethora of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches. These methodologies share a top-down approach: they start by modeling application content, then they define a navigational schema, and finally refine the latter to obtain presentation and rich behavior specifications. Such approach makes it difficult to acquire qu...

This paper describes a process initiative within IBM to make the Corporate Portal (ibm.com) development practices more responsive to changing customer needs and explains the bottlenecks that arose with application deployment when this agile approach was not initially extended throughout the wider solution delivery lifecycle. The paper details the simple process changes that were adopted to expa...