The international community is highly interested in developing repository of diverse learning objects that can be exchange and reused for different purposes. Development methods are often very time consuming and costly. There is a need to develop methods that will allow development and enhancements of learning object of high quality and allow flexible, agile and structured approach. The aim of ...

In this paper, we present a case study comparing the productivity resulting from applying some agile practices (from Extreme Programming) with a more conventional OO software development approach. We show four productivity metrics gathered from a small software company before and after adopting agile practices. The data shows strong productivity gains.

people and project management issues rather than technical issues.4 Agile methods (see the related sidebar on page 22) are a recent set of development techniques that apply a human-centered approach to software production.5 The agile approach aims to deliver high-quality products faster, producing satisfied customers. We conducted an empirical study to investigate whether agile methods change a...

1 Thomas Reichlmayr, Software Engineering Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, [email protected] Abstract The rise in popularity of agile software development methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP), Crystal, DSDM and Feature-Driven Development has opened an opportunity for the software engineering education community. How can one capitalize on the strengths o...