Background Assessing and communicating software engineering research can be
challenging. Design science is recognized as an appropriate research paradigm for applied …

Abstract Context: Microservices Architecture (MSA) has received significant attention in the
software industry. However, little empirical evidence exists on design, monitoring, and …

Grounded Theory (GT), a sociological research method designed to study social
phenomena, is increasingly being used to investigate the human and social aspects of …

DevOps is a set of practices and cultural values that aims to reduce the barriers between
development and operations teams. Due to its increasing interest and imprecise definitions …

Agile teams are not meant to have project managers. Instead, agile methods such as Scrum
and XP define roles such as product owner, scrum master, and coach. Studies have …

Achieving effective inter-team coordination is one of the most pressing challenges in large-
scale software development. Hybrid approaches of traditional and agile development …

Over the last two decades, agile software development (ASD) has garnered much attention
in both research and practice. Several ASD methods and techniques have been developed …

Context Responding to change and continuously improving processes, practices, and
products are core to agile software development. It is no different in large-scale agile, where …

Scrum remains the most popular agile software development method implementation for a
variety of reasons; one important motive is to improve software quality. Yet many …

Scrum teams are at the heart of the Scrum framework. Nevertheless, an integrated and
systemic theory that can explain what makes some Scrum teams more effective than others …