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Is Water-Scrum-Fall Reality? On the Use of Agile and Traditional Development Practices

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Is Water-Scrum-Fall Reality? On the Use of Agile and Traditional Development Practices
Abstract. For years, agile methods are considered the most promising route toward successful software development, and a considerable number of published studies the (successful) use of agile methods and reports on the benefits companies have from adopting agile methods. Yet, since the world is not black or white, the question for what happened to the traditional models arises. Are traditional models replaced by agile methods? How is the transformation toward Agile managed, and, moreover, where did it start? With this paper we close a gap in literature by studying the general process use over time to investigate how traditional and agile methods are used. Is there coexistence or do agile methods accelerate the traditional processes’ extinction? The findings of our literature study comprise two major results: First, studies and reliable numbers on the general process model use are rare, i.e., we lack quantitative data on the actual process use and, thus, we often lack the ability to...
Georgios Theocharis, Marco Kuhrmann, Jürgen M
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Type Journal
Year 2015
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Authors Georgios Theocharis, Marco Kuhrmann, Jürgen Münch, Philipp Diebold
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