Finding out, analyzing, documenting, and checking requirements are important activities in all development approaches, including agile development. This paper discusses problems concerned with the conduction of requirements engineering activities in agile software development processes and suggests some improvements to solve some challenges caused by agile requirements engineering practices in ...

Agile Modeling (AM) provides a set of best practices of “lightweight” modeling to support the modeling process on a macro level within the agile development teams. At the core of AM is close collaboration with stakeholders which is similar to participative Enterprise Modeling (EM). Hence, the objective of this paper is to analyze the potential of using EM in agile development projects to addres...

today’s Scrum vision of agile so ware development to a disciplined agile solu on delivery. It begins with a brief overview of the agile so ware development movement and its implica ons. We then overview the Scrum method with its associated benefi ts and drawbacks, and then how to move beyond Scrum to a full delivery process framework called Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). DAD is a governed, h...

Globally distributed software development (GSD) and agile methods are two current and important trends in software and systems engineering. While agile methods seem to cope well with increasingly changing business environments, it is far from obvious how these light-weight processes can best contribute to GSD. In this paper, method rationale is proposed as an analytical tool to understand the v...

As the use of both agile and traditional methods continues to grow, the need for guidelines on how the two approaches may be used together will increase. This paper identifies the growth of both agile and formal approaches to project management then examines the origins and key elements of the two methods. The characteristics of software projects that lead to challenges in applying traditional ...

Custom SME applications for collaboration and workflow have become affordable when implemented as Web applications employing Agile methodologies. Security engineering is still difficult with Agile development, though: heavy-weight processes put the improvements of Agile development at risk. We propose Agile security engineering and increased end-user involvement to improve Agile development wit...

Agile software development has caught the attention of both practitioners and academics in recent years. In spite of many anecdotes and papers describing lessons learnt the theoretical foundation of agile software development has not been systematically articulated. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to study agile software development based on the theory of complex adaptive systems. Th...

The competitive pressures of today’s businesses require delivery of software solutions in the shortest time possible. Software systems that once took years to deliver can now be created in months. The enabler of this transformation is the agile software process. We will look at the characteristics of an agile process. Specifically, we will look at what makes a software process agile and how dif...

Agile Crosses the Chasm to the Enterprise The benefits of Agile methods are becoming more obvious and compelling. While the most popular practices were developed and proven in small team environments, the interest and need for using Agile in the enterprise is growing rapidly. That’s largely because Agile provides quantifiable, “step-change” improvements in the “big three” software development m...

Agile Processes and Formal Methods (FM), water and oil, impossible mixture? Yes at first sight. Nevertheless, being formal methods weight processes and being agile processes informal approaches to software development, it is worth to study how much formal can be an agile process like Extreme Programming (XP) and how much agile can be a formal method. On our view, some XP practices are suitable ...