Many organizations have adopted agile strategies to some extent, often applying simple methods such as Scrum on a few software development projects. Although they have succeeded on a handful of projects—clearly a good start—they now want to scale agile to address enterprise-class solutions. As the old saying goes about success, “What got you here is not going to get you to the next level.” This...

This paper describes our experiences with using XP practices within the EU-project CARUSO. The objective of CARUSO is the development of a framework for building customized Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications. Originally, the project was planned with a traditional software development process in mind with a first prototype for evaluation by the customer and a second prototype bu...

Nowadays, changing development approach from traditional to Agile methods has been considered as a strategic decision for achieving Agile values by most software companies and organizations. Due to its nature, moving to Agile software development and adapting to Agile methods need a long time and enough effort. Thus, organizations are faced with a lot of challenges during the transition and ado...

Agile software development has gained widespread acceptance and adoption by a broad range of organisations. Research to-date focuses on the positive gains from Agile adoption while the possible software risks have been largely overlooked. A recent failure case of a large Agile project invites a balanced view of Agile development and consideration of risks management. As a first step towards Agi...

The increase of available Cloud services and providers has contributed to accelerate the development and has broaden the possibilities for building and provisioning Cloud applications in heterogeneous Cloud environments. The necessity for satisfying business and operational requirements in an agile and rapid manner has created the need for adapting traditional methods and tooling support for bu...

Agile development methodologies are very promising in the software industry. Agile development techniques are very realistic in understanding the fact that requirement in a business environment changes constantly. Agile development processes optimize the opportunity provided by cloud computing by doing software releases iteratively and getting user feedback more frequently. This research work, ...

Agile Software Development evolved partially in response to failures associated with waterfall methods. Early Agile research explored adoption, techniques and success stories. More recent work points to challenges when Agile teams interact with wider organizational structures. This work uses Ethnography to explore tensions and challenges between tradition management structures and Agile teams t...

Leadership is crucial for agile team effectiveness and performance. The roles played by project leaders have significantly changed in agile methodologies, but very limited studies on leadership have been conducted in the agile software development context. Motivated by this gap, this study aims to investigate the roles of various leadership styles in agile methodologies and understand how diffe...

This demo paper presents an interactive tabletop interface with tangible building blocks to engage business domain experts in process modelling. This interface, called Metasonic Touch, is a commercial product based on results of the European research project IANES (Interactive Acquisition, Negotiation and Enactment of Subject-Oriented Business Process Knowledge). BPM conference attendees will b...

An outline for a platform-based, bottom-up model, based on extensive project practices, is introduced for the university-business-government collaboration (UXC) analysis. Current internal incentive problems of UXC at universities especially in Europe are considered and guidelines introduced for a fast-lane platform model for building agile UXC knowledge engines. Experiences and learning lessons...