Agile methods provide a team or an organization with the flexibility to adopt a selected subset of principles and practices based on their values, their culture, and the systems that they develop. Agile software development these days becomes very popular. Webster university has started a graduate level course on Agile software development in this course main idea is discussed and implemented v...

Self-organizing teams are one of the critical success factors on Agile projects but unfortunately little is known about the self-organizing nature of Agile teams and the challenges they face in industrial practice. Based on a Grounded Theory study of 40 Agile practitioners across 16 software development organizations in New Zealand and India, we describe how self-organizing Agile teams perform ...

Agile development methods continue to enjoy widespread use, with more and more companies transitioning to agile methods. Current literature suggests that most of those companies are successful in making the transition, but others are not so successful. This paper examines one such company – referred to within as the ‘ABC Company’ to maintain their privacy – and analyzes and discusses their stru...

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 ma...

Management literature on agile software development has largely focused on the relationship between agile methods and behavioral control, particularly the role that control plays in fostering flexibility. Although the focus on control has helpfully illuminated the constraints necessary in agile projects, it has provided only a half-finished portrait of the importance of structure in this approa...

Due to a number of similarities between user-centred design (UCD) and agile development, coupled with an appreciation that developers are rarely usability experts, it seems attractive to integrate these two approaches. However, although agile methods share some of the same aims as UCD, there are also distinct differences. These differences have made the use of these methods on development proje...

The application of agile practices for requirements prioritization is a relatively recent trend. Hence, not all of its facets are well-understood. This exploratory study sets out to uncover the concepts that practitioners in a large software organization use in the prioritization process and the practices that they deem good. The study was carried out as a series of three embedded case studies ...

Our research aims at finding key concepts to link agile enterprises with agile automated information systems. To effectively respond to environmental changes, such as in market needs, technology, regulations or law, enterprises need to be able to change their supporting information system(s) accordingly. The Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO) has already proven to be an...

This paper presents an empirical study on how selforganized software teams could attain high performance using agile and lean practices. In particular, the paper qualitatively examines characteristics of high performance and selforganization in one project team. The case under study is a customer-driven student project, carried out to develop an alpha-version prototype. The paper also studies h...

Agile methods are gaining popularity over a wider range of domains, predominantly in enterprise environments. Software methodologies are evolving due to the challenges imposed by ever changing software development scenarios. Agile methodologies particularly demand for an organizational culture which focuses on high responsibility and greater discipline of every individual in an organization. Th...