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In the industry, the demand for building custom software is continuous and pressing; this responsibility falls directly on the institutional software provider, whether internal or external. It is common to observe that development teams have problems managing work and delays in project delivery and software delivery with quality problems during the software engineering process. Thus, this study aims to implement a methodology to improve software development management and answer the research question: What success factors were found when implementing the methodology? The research structure was established as follows: 1) Comparative analysis between agile development methodologies most used in the community. 2) Conducting a case study at Yachay Tech University 3) Determine the critical success factors in adopting the methodology. 4) Statistical analysis of the results. The results obtained from the case study's critical success factors were an improvement of 60.50% in human factors, 50.27% in organizational factors, and 32.32% in other factors.
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Quiña-Mera, A., Chamorro Andrade, L., Montaluisa Yugla, J., Chicaiza Angamarca, D., Guevara-Vega, C.P. (2021). Improving Software Project Management by Applying Agile Methodologies: A Case Study. In: Botto-Tobar, M., Montes León, S., Camacho, O., Chávez, D., Torres-Carrión, P., Zambrano Vizuete, M. (eds) Applied Technologies. ICAT 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71503-8_52
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