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The interaction between organizational subcultures and user-centered design-a case study of an implementation effort

The role of commitment in software process improvement

This thesis suggests that the commitment phenomenon is better explained through what can be called strategic, operational and personal commitment nets, which can be used for analyzing the unfolding and alteration of commitment towards a specific entity, in this case a software process improvement endeavor, through time...

Personal Software Process: Classroom Experiences from Finland

Results from the University of Oulu in Finland, where PSP is a mandatory course for students majoring in software engineering, do not indicate a significant improvement in size or effort estimation skills, but the defects found in the unit test phase were decreased.

Extreme programming: first results from a controlled case study

Evolutionary product line modelling

This work proposes an evolutionary software product line modelling approach based on controllable inheritance of product line members specifications that uses hierarchies of implemented product specifications accompanied by correctness control of product model transformations.

Digging into the fundamentals of extreme programming building the theoretical base for agile methods

Experimental software engineering (STESE)

Software engineering theory and practice is still to a large extent based more on faith than on science. Only by contributing to the scientific and empirically grounded body of knowledge within a specific area of application, theory and practice can develop. Experimentation is an important scientific approach to collec...

Improving requirements management in extreme programming with tool support - an improvement attempt that failed

While extreme programming (XP) relies on certain principles, it requires an extensive set of tools to enable an effective execution of its practices. In many companies, putting stories on the board may not be sufficient for managing rapidly changing requirements. The objective of This work is to report the results from...

Managing commitments and risks: challenges in distributed agile development

Usability Assessment of an Extreme Programming Project: Close Co-operation with the Customer Does Not Equal to Good Usability

The analysis reveals that XP pays almost no attention on the usability of the software, apart from some actions that can be regarded as implicit usability evaluations, and that in XP the team transfers the responsibility of the product's usability to the customer.

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