The purpose of this dissertation was to explore critical issues and challenges that might
arise in agile software development processes with Scrum. It also sought to provide …

Context Combining software architecture and agile development has received significant
attention in recent years. However, there exists no comprehensive overview of the state of …

Agile software development advocates self-organizing teams that display high levels of
autonomy. Self-organizing agile teams are meant to share project management activities …

Awareness and use of agile methods has grown rapidly among the information systems
development (ISD) community in recent years. Like most previous methods, the …

Following the highly pervasive and effective use of agile methods at the team level, many
software organisations now wish to replicate this success at the organisational level …

This paper describes empirical research into agile requirements engineering (RE) practices.
Based on an analysis of data collected in 16 US software development organizations, we …

Achieving effective inter-team coordination is one of the most pressing challenges in large-
scale software development. Hybrid approaches of traditional and agile development …

Over the last two decades, agile software development (ASD) has garnered much attention
in both research and practice. Several ASD methods and techniques have been developed …

Agile systems development methods emerged as a response to the inability of previous plan-
driven approaches to handle rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2002). Originating …

Agile development methods are growing in popularity with a recent survey reporting that
more than 80% of organizations now following an agile approach. Agile methods were seen …