Context: In agile development methodologies, requirements prioritization is a complex collaborative, continuous, and cyclical process. However, it is considered a tedious task. The motivation for stakeholders' engagement, for participating and ...

Agile software development is a popular and widely adopted practice due to its flexible and iterative nature that facilitates rapid prototyping. Recent work presented an agile approach to capturing requirements in agent systems via user and system ...

How organizations develop and provide their services and software projects is undergoing significant changes and the work methodology applied has agility as its key element when it comes to successfully facing this process for the transformation of ...

Agile methodologies have been recently proposed to be used in education. In this paper, we propose a rephrasing of the 12 Agile principles for learning context, and we provide concrete application-oriented interpretations for them. Additionally, a ...

The agile software development life cycle is widely used in industry today due to its highly flexible and iterative processes that facilitate rapid prototyping. There has been recent work in bringing concepts and processes from agile methodologies to ...

Agile and cyclic learning are methodologies that have been recently proposed to be used in teaching Computer Science. This paper investigates their usage for the undergraduate studies on parallel and distributed computing (PDC). The aim of this analysis ...

This research presents an educational application for the recovery of the Kichwa language as a technological proposal that seeks to promote culture and mitigate the problem of the disappearance of native languages in the country indicated by UNESCO in ...

In this study we dig for scrum application practices in distributed offshore development teams of a multinational company which has in-source offshore development centers across the world. Main location of the research is the Turkey center of the ...

This paper presents some findings on an empirical study conducted to understand the effects of adopting agile methodologies in industrial software projects in the Apulian district (south of Italy). From 2014 to 2016, eleven software houses of the ...

Continuous and long-term collaboration between industry and academia is crucial to develop front-line research in context-dependent areas like software development where both practitioners and researchers are searched for data collection, analysis and ...

We have developed a low-cost wireless monitoring system, that enables air quality referential parameters measurements based on a multilayer distributed model with an Arduino platform. This is an Internet of Things application, of which a physical object ...

Mobile app markets have experienced a significant growth during the last year. The increasing number of apps available on markets and the profits that developers and companies obtain are relevant enough to seriously consider the way apps are developed. ...

Starting from the documentation of high sprint velocity fluctuations in a Scrum project, this paper presents a thorough approach to identify the sources of issues arising in the context of Scrum implementation. Given that Scrum provides guidance on ...

This paper reports the results from a survey concerning the use of Agile Methodologies (AM), techniques and tools for Web Programming. The survey lasted from October to December 2013, and involved 112 Web application developers from 32 countries. Its ...

In this paper, we present the results of a systematic review involving the use of usability techniques in software developments where agile methodologies were used. The search strategy identified 307 studies, where only 32 were finally selected for the ...

Nowadays, more and more computing devices arise with different applicabilities. Software applications peculiarities for Digital TV (DTV), for example, require special attention in its development process, such as multimedia content gathering ...

Information technology and computer science educators are experiencing an industry-driven change from plan-based software engineering development processes to more people-oriented Agile software engineering approaches. While plan-based software ...

Scrum has become one of the most popular agile methodologies, either alone or combined with other agile practices. Besides, CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) is accepted as a suitable model to measure the maturity of the organizations when ...

This paper presents a pattern language for agile software estimation. The proposed language is composed of eight patterns and their relationships, which were identified through an extensive literature research and interviews with several companies that ...