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...
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...
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...
Agile methodologies represent a ‘people’ centered approach to delivering software. This paper investigates the social processes that contribute to their success. Qualitative g...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...