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AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Does the XP environment meet the motivational needs of the software developer? An empirical study
This paper examines how XP practice meets the motivational needs of software developers. Interactions with peers have been identified by others as one potential area of (de)motiva...
Sarah Beecham, Helen Sharp, Nathan Baddoo, Tracy H...
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Becoming Agile using Service Learning in the Software Engineering Course
This experience report describes a three year journey toward agility in a software engineering course. Students in the course work in small project teams to develop an application...
Brian Hanks
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The UCD Perspective: Before and After Agile
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 o...
Heather Williams, Andrew Ferguson
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Social Nature of Agile Teams
Agile methodologies represent a ‘people’ centered approach to delivering software. This paper investigates the social processes that contribute to their success. Qualitative g...
Elizabeth Whitworth, Robert Biddle
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Establishing the Agile PMO: Managing variability across Projects and Portfolios
Our Portfolio Management Office helps to balance the demand on the firm’s resources from multiple competing and sometimes inter-dependent projects. Traditional Project/Portfolio...
Ash Tengshe, Scott Noble
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Scrum and CMMI Level 5: The Magic Potion for Code Warriors
Projects combining agile methods with CMMI1 are more successful in producing higher quality software that more effectively meets customer needs at a faster pace. Systematic Softwa...
Jeff Sutherland, Carsten Ruseng Jakobsen, Kent Joh...
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Implementing Scrum in a Distributed Software Development Organization
This paper describes the start of the implementation of Scrum within BMC Software (Identity Management business unit). It describes the project, the project structure and the firs...
Hubert Smits, Guy Pshigoda
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Large Build Teams: Help or Hindrance?
Should we use build and deployment teams on large projects? Build and deployment work often emerges as a specialization on project teams. This specialization becomes important on ...
Julian Simpson, Shane Duan