As software development becomes increasingly globally distributed, a potential challenge for organizations using agile methodologies is the design of their development teams. Using a case study approach, Cohen’s updated model of the Informing Science framework served as a means for framing the discussion of global agile team design related to the components of task, environmental context, and d...

In recent years, Design Science has gained wide recognition and acceptance as a formal research method in many disciplines including information systems. Design Science research in Human-Computer Interaction is not so abundant. HCI is a discipline primarily focusing on design, evaluation, and implementation where design plays the role as a process as well as an artefact. In this paper, we prese...

Software development agile methodologies aim at promoting fast communication and incremental software delivery. The success of these methodologies in permanently evolving systems depends on how software engineers identify and structure changing requirements. Current agile methodologies fail to explicitly deal with the crosscutting nature of requirements, compromising the speed and capacity of s...

Nowadays, at least two types of software development processes exist. At first there are the formal, structured ones mainly based on waterfallor spiral-like processes. On the other hand, pragmatic agile methods, like Scrum or Extreme Programming, become more and more important. People often say both approaches are exclusive. In this paper we present an approach to integrate a concrete agile met...

ix 1 Overview and Scope 1 2 Research Approach 3 3 Overview of Highlights from Brief Literature Search 4 4 Summary of Recommendations from Interviews 7 5 Interview Findings: Introduction 15 6 Interview Findings: Challenges from the Agile Program Manager Perspective 17 7 Interview Findings: Challenges from the Accrediting Authority Perspective 22 8 Implications of Existing Information Assurance P...

In recent years, with the growth of software engineering, agile software development methodologies have also grown substantially, replacing plandriven approaches in many areas. Although prominent agile methodologies are in wide use today, there is no method which is suitable for all situations. It has therefore become essential to apply Situational Method Engineering (SME) approaches to produce...

Studies of more than eight thousand information systems (IS) projects revealed that most project failures involve people problems. Five of the top six reasons for project failure are rooted in communication problems between the development teams and the customer. Agile software development methods seek to address this challenge by relying on people and their creativity rather than on processes....

The tenets of agile software development (ASD) were formulated over fifteen years ago. Since then, a number of methods and best practices have emerged, which, in turn, have spawned many research ideas. This study attempts to chronicle the evolution of thought in agile software development by using text analytics, an approach that is becoming invaluable in our efforts to understand unstructured ...

Based on a real-world case study in agile development, we examine issues of schema evolution in state-of-the-art object databases. In particular, we show how traditional problems and solutions discussed in the research literature do not match the requirements of modern agile development practices. To highlight these discrepancies, we present the approach to agile schema evolution taken in the c...

enterprise resource planning (erp) has become the most strategic tool for an organization to employ. a leading erp solution is sap®. it has been employed by organizations to enable them to collaborate on different projects and to integrate all aspects of operations. just as organizations have adopted erp solutions, they employed quality initiatives that are designed to help organizations maximi...