Proven, 100% Practical Guidance for Making Scrum and Agile Work in Any Organization
This is the definitive, realistic, actionable guide to starting fast with Scrum and agile-and then …

The integration of Agile and User-Centered Design methods is a fundamental condition to
improve the quality of software products. However, one of the main problems faced to …

Agile software development by offering new values motivates software companies to use
Agile methods instead of traditional methods. However, reviewing the literature shows that …

The customer is a critical role in XP, but almost all XP practices are presented for developers
by developers. While XP calls for real customer involvement, it does not explain what XP …

In the agile and user-centered design (UCD) communities it is often believed that agile's
quick development cycles do not allow time to fully understand our user's needs. In our …

The initial definition of XP resulted in many people interpreting the on-site customer to be a
single person. We have conducted extensive qualitative research studying XP teams, and …

This chapter explores the reality of the customer role–a critical, complex, and demanding
role on agile teams. Despite initial difficulties, customers love agile development and would …

Changing development approach from disciplined to agile methods is an organizational
mutation that requires many issues to be considered to increase its chance of success …

Software companies are widely interested to use Agile methodologies instead of traditional
methods, mainly because of achieving the values offered by Agile approach. However …

Effective and efficient in managing agile project costs is important in ensuring the project is
successful. Therefore, the objective of this paper to validates the success factors which …