One of the main characteristics of agile software development is the active and continuous participation and involvement of the clients throughout the project. According to agile proponents, this leads to building ‘the right’ product and to satisfied clients. In this paper we present a comparative study of two Dutch software development companies in respect to client participation and its impac...

Agile processes allow developers to construct, run and test executable models in short, incremental, iterative cycles. However, the agile development processes tend to minimize the modeling phase and the usage of UML models, because UML is a “unified” (too general) language with a lot of semantic variation points. The current version of UML together with its Action Semantics provide the foundat...

Agile development 12 principles, and adaptive project management life cycle model are applied to case study of J group, the critical success factors of running Scrum are identified as follows: 1) explicit the process of project management and a self-managing group with Scrum; 2) professional agile development and release capability; 3) building learning organization. J group as a pioneer Scrum ...

-Distribution of software development is becoming more and more common in order to save the production cost and reduce the time to market. Large geographical distance, different time zones and cultural differences in distributed software development (DSD) leads to weak communication which adversely affects the project. Using agile practices for distributed development is also gaining momentum i...

Developing an overall IT Process Management program is a new, important, and revolutionary perspective for building a more adaptive and agile IT organization.

Agile social media analysis involves building bespoke, one-off classification pipelines tailored to the analysis of specific datasets. In this study we investigate how the DUALIST architecture can be optimised for agile social media analysis. We evaluate several semi-supervised learning algorithms in conjunction with a Naı̈ve Bayes model, and show how these modifications can improve the performa...

The need for having a clear roadmap for a software product developed using an agile method is a reasonable implication of the agilists’ tendency of establishing a planning-driven process rather than a plan-driven one, and chasing and welcoming change rather than limiting it. Building an initial architecture for a product will serve as the railway for a planning process that can enable managing ...

Background: Trust fuels team performance and contributes to build an effective and cohesive team. The self-organizing and collaborative nature of Agile teams increases the importance of trust in software development teams. Trust is, however, affected in distributed teams. Aim: Through a Grounded Theory study we investigate the impact of trust in distributed Agile teams. Method: We interviewed 4...

Requirements management is one of the cornerstone activities in software development. Agile methodologies use dedicated methods, techniques and artifacts in order to implement this activity. Remarkably, Backlog Grooming is the activity of managing and welcoming changing requirements in SCRUM. However, current industrial practices in agile development still tend to render this process in the sha...

Global software development (GSD) is now-a-days pervasive in software industry aiming to develop global standard software through geographically distributed skilled teams in minimum time and cost. In order to meet the demand for green software production and frequent changes in requirements of the clients, GSD developers have revamped traditional methods and trying to incorporate green principl...