The Agile project management approach with the Crystal Clear method was used to rapidly develop and deploy a variety of innovative IT applications. Our A-Team of staff and students thrived on the flexible and iterative process, and helped fine-tune our adaptation of the Agile approach for future IT projects.

Many organizations have adopted agile strategies to some extent, often applying simple methods such as Scrum on a few software development projects. Although they have succeeded on a handful of projects—clearly a good start—they now want to scale agile to address enterprise-class solutions. As the old saying goes about success, “What got you here is not going to get you to the next level.” This...

Today’s market expectations force organizations to invent and provide new products in short time and thus to speed up their product and software development. On the one hand, Product Line Engineering (PLE) is a promising approach that is believed to shorten time to market and increase high quality of products. On the other hand, agile methods aim at reducing time to market and increasing qualit...

Nowadays, changing development approach from traditional to Agile methods has been considered as a strategic decision for achieving Agile values by most software companies and organizations. Due to its nature, moving to Agile software development and adapting to Agile methods need a long time and enough effort. Thus, organizations are faced with a lot of challenges during the transition and ado...

Presently Agile methods courses taught in universities focus primarily on providing hands-on experience of the process of development but ignore the evolution of, and theories behind, the Agile practices. “Without theory we are just groping in chaos” (Deming, 1986). Knowing the ‘why” in addition to the “how” of Agile methods will help develop reflective skills and give students an edge as they ...

Ever since the agile manifesto was created in 2001, the research community has devoted a great deal of attention to agile software development. This article examines publications and citations to illustrate how the research on agile has progressed in the 10 years following the articulation of the manifesto. nformation systems Xtreme programming, XP crum ean software development rystal method Sp...

Finland’s Slot Machine Association (RAY) has recently undergone a major transformation from a steady operator of slot machines to an agile innovator of new games and concepts. As a key part of this transformation, agile methods used in product development teams have been scaled up to the organizational level using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). To help analyze the development in the organizatio...

The agile approach uses continuous delivery, instead of distinct procedure, to work closer with customers and to respond faster requirement changes. All of these are against the traditional plan driven approach. Due to agile method’s characteristics and its success in the real world practices, a number of discussions regarding the differences between agile and traditional approaches emerged rec...

Agile practices are receiving considerable attention from industry as an alternative to traditional software development approaches. However, there are a number of challenges in combining Agile [2] with Test-driven development (TDD) [10] practices, cloud deployments, continuous integration (CI), non-stop performance, load, security and accessibly testing. From these challenges; Continuous Integ...

The need to rapidly deliver high quality software that meets the changing needs of stakeholders has driven the definition of methods, including Agile and Software Product Line approaches. Although many of the goals of such approaches are similar, they appear to differ significantly in principles and practices. The purpose of this work is to compare Agile and Software Product line approaches fro...