Over the last ten years Agile Software Development (ASD) has received much attention from researchers and practitioners as an approach for dealing with change. However, the proper application area and the use of a mixed agile and traditional, more plan-driven -approach are still much debated. In this paper, we report from a mission critical project that was considered agile by the involved staf...

Yahoo! is a great proving ground for Agile. Since the introduction of Agile methods and practices into the company over five years ago, many contests of the Agile process have played out across the expansive Yahoo! software development landscape. Throughout its history, the spirit of Agile has survived, often in surprising and unexpected ways. Whether being mandated from the executive-level or ...

Agile Software development methodology is most emerging in software development, there has been a significant contribution from many researchers towards estimating the size, cost, schedule, effort and duration. However, the approaches reported in the literature lack in considering the evolution of biological systems for better optimization in agile. Here Agile Estimation Plan method determines ...

Abstract— This paper deals with the comparative study of agile processes. The paper will serve as guide to other software development process models. Agile processes have important applications in the areas of software project management, software schedule management, etc. In particular the aim of agile processes is to satisfy the customer, faster development times with lower defects rate. This...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

Agile processes are expected to follow a set of well known agile principles and practices. This paper analyses the utilization of an agile process in a project that imposes certain difficulties in meeting such principles and practices in their totality, particularly those that refer to daily face-to-face communication among team members and frequent delivery of new versions of the product in sh...