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 ...

It is only less than a decade that agile SD methods were introduced and got popular steadily. The defined values in these methods and their outcomes have motivated many software producers to use these methods. Since migration from traditional software development methods to agile methods is growing highly, managers of the companies should be aware of problems, hindrances and challenges they may...

Software design is gradually becoming open, distributed, pervasive, and connected. It is a sad statistical fact that software projects are scientifically fragile and tend to fail more than other engineering fields. Agile development is a philosophy. And agile methods are processes that support the agile philosophy. XP places a strong emphasis on technical practices in addition to the more commo...

Risk management has become recognized as a best practice in the software industry. Controlling risks improves essential software development features such as product quality, planning precision and cost-efficiency. For this reason, the inclusion of risk management in software development is an important factor to consider if one wishes to achieve project success. Agile models claim to be risk-d...

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

Organizations delivering offshore software development services have traditionally focused on CMMI framework to deliver quality software. With agile methodologies gaining more wide spread acceptance, such organizations cannot stay away from them. There are concerns about combining agile methodologies with offshoring. There are also concerns about mismatch of agile methodologies with CMMI framew...

Organizations need to rapidly adapt to changes in dynamic markets. The design of an organization can hinder or even prevent it from responding quickly to changes in its environment. The processes along with other resources in the organization drive its work and responses to changes in its environment. Processes of an agile organization must be effective, efficient, reusable and well managed. Fu...

In the last decade agile methodologies have gained widespread popularity among the software community. Software practitioners across the globe are adopting agile methodologies to meet the challenges involved with turbulent business environment where requirements changes with time. Agile as name means flexibility is a group of various methodologies emphasizing the practice of Whole team, Short r...

There is a growing trend towards the adoption of agile methods for information systems development in organisations due to the pressures for products and services to be faster to market. This paper examines the introduction and use of agile methods in two significantly different organizations; a bank and an international law firm. The adoption of agile methods in one organization was deemed a s...

S ince the publication of Kent Beck’s Extreme Programming Explained, agile processes have grown increasingly popular. Agile processes allow for changing requirements throughout the development cycle and stress collaboration between software developers and customers and early product delivery. The “Agile Manifesto” establishes a common framework for these processes: Value individuals and interac...