It is increasingly common to introduce agile coaches help gain speed and advantage in companies. Following the success of Spotify, role coach has branched out terms tasks responsibilities, but little research been conducted examine how this practiced. This paper examines through 19 semi-structured interviews with from ten different We describe projects, valuable traits, skills, tools, enablers ...

The research focuses on Agile Method configuration process that supports an Essentiality attribute for the agile methods. Since, these methods adhere to a set of practices it's hard to produce a generic model for the purpose. It was noted, that software development community has adopted method configuration to form project-specific method for agile methodology but have not treated the ‘notion o...

Over a decade ago, the manufacturing industry determined it needed to be more agile to thrive and prosper in a changing, nonlinear, uncertain and unpredictable business environment. Recently, the software engineering community has come to the same realization. A group of software methodologists has created a set of software development processes, termed agile methodologies that have been specif...

The article evaluates the feasibility of extending agile principles to larger, dynamic, and possibly distributed software development projects by uncovering the theoretical basis for agile values and principles for achieving agility. The extant literature focuses mainly on one theory – complex adaptive systems – to support agile methods, although recent research indicates that the control theor...

Agility is bringing in responsibility and ownership in individuals, which will eventually bring out effectiveness and efficiency in deliverables. Agile model is growing in the market at very good pace. Companies are drifting from traditional Software Development Life Cycle models to Agile Environment for the purpose of attaining quality and for the sake of saving cost and time. Nimbleness natur...

Effective coordination is an important factor in successful software projects that has not been fully explored in the context of agile software development. Agile software development projects eschew many traditional practices for achieving coordination leaving a gap in our understanding of exactly how such projects are coordinated and if this coordination is effective. However, before investig...

Simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) are lentiviruses that infect an extensive number of wild African primate species. Here we describe for the first time SIV infection in a captive agile mangabey (Cercocebus agilis) from Cameroon. Phylogenetic analysis of the full-length genome sequence of SIVagi-00CM312 showed that this novel virus fell into the SIVrcm lineage and was most closely related t...

With the increasing popularity and demand for mobile applications, there has been a significant increase in the number of mobile application development projects. Highly volatile requirements of mobile applications require adaptive software development methods. The Agile approach is seen as a natural fit for mobile application and there is a need to explore various Agile methodologies for the d...

Business value is a key concept in agile software development. This paper presents results of a case study on how business value and its creation is perceived in the context of agile projects. Our overall conclusion is that the project participants almost never use an explicit and structured approach to guide the value creation throughout the project. Still, the application of agile methods in ...

USABILITY OF AGILE METHODS IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT OUTSOURCING: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW PROTOCOL Irshad Ali and Siffat Ullah Khan Department of Computer Science and IT, University of Malakand, Pakistan [email protected], [email protected] ABSTRACT: Agile methods are the mixture of iterative developments, with the set of best practices to easily handle software changes and increase clie...