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Self-Adaptability of Agile Software Processes: A Case Study on Post-iteration Workshops

Empirical results show that with less than 4% effort it is possible to hold post-iteration workshops that significantly help to improve and optimize practices and enhance the learning and satisfaction of the project team.

Empirical Evaluation of Agile Software Development: The Controlled Case Study Approach

A controlled case study approach is presented, which has been applied in a study of extreme programming methodology performed in close-to-industry settings, which considers the generation of both quantitative and qualitative data

Mobile-D for Mobile Software : How to Use Agile Approaches for the Efficient Development of Mobile Applications

This tutorial seeks to provide an overview on the special characteristics of mobile software development and introduce a development approach called MobileD, which combines several agile approaches to meet the needs of volatile mobile application development, which has been validated in five empirical cases.

Integrating agile software development and software process improvement: a longitudinal case study

Mobile-D: an agile approach for mobile application development

The Mobile-D approach is briefly outlined here and the experiences gained from four case studies are discussed, which helped develop an agile development approach for mobile application development.

An iterative improvement process for agile software development

An Iterative Improvement Process for conducting SPI within individual agile project teams is proposed, which aims at increasing the ability of software developers to improve the development process based on their experiences and context knowledge.

The impact of agile practices on communication in software development

The study shows that agile practices improve both informal and formal communication, but indicates that, in larger development situations involving multiple external stakeholders, a mismatch of adequate communication mechanisms can sometimes even hinder the communication.

Agile methods in European embedded software development organisations: a survey on the actual use and usefulness of Extreme Programming and Scrum

The results show that the embedded industry has been able to apply agile methods in its development processes and that the appreciation of the agile methods and their individual practices appears to increase once adopted and applied in practice.

Software product roadmapping in a volatile business environment

A framework is developed for software product roadmapping and results revealed that organizations view the product roadmap mainly as a tool for strategic decision making as it aims at showing the future directions of the company's products.

Agile methods rapidly replacing traditional methods at Nokia: A survey of opinions on agile transformation

The perception of the impact of agile methods is predominantly positive, and several challenge areas were discovered, but based on this study, agile methods are here to stay.

Strengths and barriers behind the successful agile deployment—insights from the three software intensive companies in Finland

By identifying the barriers and strengths of agile deployment, the paper deepens understanding of this highly relevant but relatively under-researched phenomenon and contributes to the literature on agile deployment and software process improvement.

Strengths and barriers behind the successful agile deployment—insights from the three software intensive companies in Finland

By identifying the barriers and strengths of agile deployment, the paper deepens understanding of this highly relevant but relatively under-researched phenomenon and contributes to the literature on agile deployment and software process improvement.