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- short-paperJune 2024
What You Use is What You Get: Unforced Errors in Studying Cultural Aspects in Agile Software Development
EASE '24: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software EngineeringPages 405–410https://doi.org/10.1145/3661167.3661229Context: Cultural aspects are of high importance as they guide people’s behaviour and thus, influence how people apply methods and act in projects. In recent years, software engineering research emphasized the need to analyze the challenges of specific ...
- research-articleAugust 2024
Security Practices in Agile Software Development: A Mapping Study
IWSiB '24: Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Software-intensive BusinessPages 56–63https://doi.org/10.1145/3643690.3648241Agile software development, widely embraced for its rapid response to organizational needs, faces challenges in seamlessly integrating security practices. Despite its success in delivering prioritized functionalities, there remain difficulties in meeting ...
- research-articleJune 2024
Hybrid Work meets Agile Software Development: A Systematic Mapping Study
CHASE '24: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software EngineeringPages 57–67https://doi.org/10.1145/3641822.3641863Hybrid work, a fusion of different work environments that allow employees to work in and outside their offices, represents a new frontier for agile researchers to explore. However, due to the nascent nature of the research phenomena, we are yet to ...
- research-articleMay 2024
The use of prototypes as a tool in Agile software development
SAC '24: Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied ComputingPages 842–849https://doi.org/10.1145/3605098.3636064The artifacts involved in agile software development are of great importance. One of their main goals is to support the teams in understanding the final product or project and facilitate communication between the development, design team, and end-user. ...
- research-articleDecember 2023
Avoidance of the term agile in software engineering: Necessary and possible
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (WSMR), Volume 35, Issue 12https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2566AbstractThe term agile is frequently used in IT especially in the area of software engineering. The broad pervasiveness of the term agile is astonishing, because it is not well defined in the area of software engineering. The fuzziness of the term agile ...
The use of the term agile in software engineering is ambiguous. In the first part, this article provides a critical discussion of the term agile. In the second part, we show that the term agile can be avoided by using a three‐layer abstraction concept ...
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- research-articleSeptember 2023
A longitudinal case study on Nexus transformation: Impact on productivity, quality, and motivation
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (WSMR), Volume 36, Issue 5https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2615AbstractThere have been success stories reported regarding the adoption of agile software development methods in the industry. There also exist observations on their limitations. One of these limitations is scalability since agile methods like Scrum ...
An industrial case study is conducted for 12 months, where Scrum is used during the first 6 months and Nexus is used in the remaining 6 months. A significant increase in productivity and product quality is observed after Nexus transformation, while ...
- review-articleSeptember 2023
Organizational training in agile settings under the lens of CMMI V2.0
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (WSMR), Volume 35, Issue 9https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2502AbstractThe software industry is a dynamic and ever‐changing environment where knowledge dissemination and ongoing learning is an open challenge, especially in agile organizations where continuous learning is essential. Organizational training covers the ...
Existing literature primarily discusses the techniques used to train and retrain employees, but there is little evidence on how to plan training, how to assure alignment with the organization's strategic and tactical goals, how to keep records, and how to ...
- research-articleJuly 2023
Identifying and Categorizing Challenges in Large-Scale Agile Software Development Projects: Insights from Two Swedish Companies
ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review (SIGAPP), Volume 23, Issue 2Pages 23–43https://doi.org/10.1145/3610409.3610411We conducted a case study to examine the challenges encountered in large-scale agile development (LSAD) within two Swedish software companies. While agile methodologies have proven successful in small and medium-sized projects, their implementation in ...
- research-articleSeptember 2023
"Software is the Easy Part of Software Engineering" - Lessons and Experiences from A Large-Scale, Multi-Team Capstone Course
ICSE-SEET '23: Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and TrainingPages 223–234https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEET58685.2023.00027Capstone courses in undergraduate software engineering are a critical final milestone for students. These courses allow students to create a software solution and demonstrate the knowledge they accumulated in their degrees. However, a typical capstone ...
- research-articleJune 2023
Which Challenges Do Exist With Agile Culture in Practice?
SAC '23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied ComputingPages 1018–1025https://doi.org/10.1145/3555776.3578726Context: In agile transformations there are many challenges. One very important but less considered and treated in research are cultural challenges associated with an agile mindset. Although research shows that cultural clashes and general organizational ...
- research-articleJune 2023
Challenges in Large-Scale Agile Software Development Projects
SAC '23: Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied ComputingPages 1030–1037https://doi.org/10.1145/3555776.3577662Agile has shown its success in small and medium-sized projects. It is becoming increasingly popular in large-scale software projects. However, agile ride in large-scale software development projects is not smooth. It is essential to understand the ...
- research-articleJuly 2022
SecureScale: Exploring Synergies between Security and Scalability in Software Development and Operation
EICC '22: Proceedings of the 2022 European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity ConferencePages 36–41https://doi.org/10.1145/3528580.3528587Security and scalability are core software qualities, which as non-functional aspects share certain characteristics and challenges in how they are approached during software development and operation. Based on expert interviews, this paper explores ...
- short-paperMay 2022
How agile teams make Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) work
ICSSP '22: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and System Processes and International Conference on Global Software EngineeringPages 104–109https://doi.org/10.1145/3529320.3529332Today, many companies allow their employees to work from anywhere, which has changed how employees coordinate their work and align toward the same goals. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a goal-setting framework applied in such distributed settings. ...
- research-articleJanuary 2023
Paving the way to a software-supported requirements prioritization in distributed scrum projects
IWSiB '22: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software-intensive Business: Towards Sustainable Software BusinessPages 51–58https://doi.org/10.1145/3524614.3528633Both, agile software development (e.g., Scrum) and the geographical distribution of project stakeholders have gained increasing significance in recent years. Establishing agile methods in distributed software development projects challenges science and ...
- posterMarch 2023
Creating a DevOps Course
SIGCSE 2023: Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2Page 1311https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3576258Software engineering is regularly listed as a top career, but typical curricula rarely equip college graduates to join latest industry practices. Providing a course on software deployment and operations (DevOps) gives students a place to learn how the ...
- research-articleJanuary 2022
Formulation and development of a novel framework to overcome communication challenges in agile distributed teams
International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management (IJISCM), Volume 13, Issue 1Pages 45–72https://doi.org/10.1504/ijiscm.2022.127060Nowadays, many organisations have combined agile methodology with global software development due to the numerous benefits they offer such as faster time to market, cheaper and skilled labour, 24-hour development and better project control. However, agile ...
- research-articleDecember 2021
Open approach of scaled agile for organizations and communities dedicated to the development of Open-Source projects
TEEM'21: Ninth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM'21)Pages 752–757https://doi.org/10.1145/3486011.3486543How 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 ...
- research-articleJuly 2021
Enhancing agile software development in the banking sector—A comprehensive case study at LHV
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (WSMR), Volume 33, Issue 7https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2363AbstractFinTech companies are challenging established financial institutions' dominance by offering the same products with a superior customer experience and delivering new features faster. The adoption of agile software development partially enables this ...
We conducted a comprehensive case study to enhance the agile software process development at LHV, an Estonian bank. Our results stress the importance of (1) having an organizational‐wide agile mindset; (2) the alignment among organizational structures, ...
- review-articleJanuary 2021
Are Product Owners communicators? A multi‐method research approach to provide a more comprehensive picture of Product Owners in practice
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (WSMR), Volume 33, Issue 1https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2311AbstractProduct Owners have an important role in the agile and hybrid software development process. While this role is supposed to maximize the value of a product, there seem to be several scattered results on how they achieve this, as well as what ...
- research-articleMarch 2021
An Empirical-informed Work Process Model for a Combined Approach of Agile, User-Centered Design, and Lean Startup
- Maximilian Zorzetti,
- Ingrid Signoretti,
- Eliana Pereira,
- Larissa Salerno,
- Cassiano Moralles,
- Michele Machado,
- Ricardo Bastos,
- Sabrina Marczak
SBQS '20: Proceedings of the XIX Brazilian Symposium on Software QualityArticle No.: 6, Pages 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/3439961.3439967Organizations worldwide have been adopting software development methods that deviate from the standard Agile approach in order to overcome some of its failings—mostly by mixing Agile with other concepts. It has been reported that combining it with Lean ...