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Scrum in a Multiproject Environment: An Ethnographically-Inspired Case Study on the Adoption Challenges

Agile methods continue to gain popularity. In particular, the Scrum method appears to be on the verge of becoming a de-facto standard in the industry, leading the so called Agile movement. While there are success stories and recommendations, there is little scientifically valid evidence of the challenges in the adoptio...

A Preliminary Roadmap for Empirical Research on Agile Software Development

Some claim that especially in the field of agile software development the research lags years behind of the practice. In this paper, we characterize the status and main challenges for research on agile software development, and propose a preliminary roadmap, focusing on providing more empirical research, primarily on e...

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.

Does Test-Driven Development Improve the Program Code? Alarming Results from a Comparative Case Study

A comparative case study of five small scale software development projects where the effect of TDD on program design was studied using both traditional and package level metrics reveals that an unwanted side effect can be that some parts of the code may deteriorate.

Architecture-Centric Methods and Agile Approaches

There is a vital need for devising a research agenda for identifying and dealing with architecture-centric challenges in agile software development to make it possible to guide the future research on integrating Architecture-centric methods in agile approaches and give advice to the software industry on dealing with Ar...

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008. Proceedings

The "Devils" within: Agile Taboos in a Large Organization.

The Future of Lean in an Agile World

Questions that will be discussed and debated by this panel of leading practitioners and academics are: is Lean harder to adapt and adopt – does Lean require a greater critical mass to make value tangible?

Long-Term Effects of Test-Driven Development A Case Study

TDD has been found to improve the team confidence in the code quality and simplify significantly the software maintenance and is eager to continue improving the practice application.

A report on the XP workshop on agile product line engineering

This workshop discussed the challenges, the research questions and the tradeoffs that need to be addressed for an agile and SPLE integration to enjoy success.

XP Workshop on Agile Product Line Engineering

Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) promises to lower the costs of developing individual applications as they heavily reuse existing artifacts and, besides decreasing costs, software reuse achieves faster development and higher quality.

Positioning Agility

Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 10th International Conference, PROFES 2009, Oulu, Finland, June 15-17, 2009. Proceedings

The 34 papers presented together with 2 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected and the topics covered are evidence-based software engineering and quality assurance, agile software development, process models and SPI, processes, software as a business.