The impact of agile practices on communication in software development

M Pikkarainen, J Haikara, O Salo… - Empirical Software …, 2008 - Springer
Agile software development practices such as eXtreme Programming (XP) and SCRUM
have increasingly been adopted to respond to the challenges of volatile business …

Challenges of shared decision-making: A multiple case study of agile software development

NB Moe, A Aurum, T Dybå - Information and Software Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
CONTEXT: Agile software development changes the nature of collaboration, coordination,
and communication in software projects. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to understand the …

Software Process Improvement as organizational change: A metaphorical analysis of the literature

SD Müller, L Mathiassen, HH Balshøj - Journal of Systems and Software, 2010 - Elsevier
Software Process Improvement (SPI) typically involves rather complex organizational
changes. Acknowledging that managers can approach these changes in quite different …

An empirical study of the complex relationships between requirements engineering processes and other processes that lead to payoffs in productivity, quality, and risk …

D Damian, J Chisan - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Requirements engineering is an important component of effective software engineering, yet
more research is needed to demonstrate the benefits to development organizations. While …

Communication flow orientation in business process modeling and its effect on redesign success: Results from a field study

N Kock, J Verville, A Danesh-Pajou, D DeLuca - Decision Support Systems, 2009 - Elsevier
Business process redesign has been intensely studied, particularly since the mid 1990s.
One aspect that received little attention, however, is the relationship between business …

[PDF][PDF] Gamification as a Disruptive Factor in Software Process Improvement Initiatives.

E Herranz, RC Palacios, A de Amescua Seco… - J. Univers. Comput …, 2014 - academia.edu
For any Software Process Improvement (SPI) initiative to succeed human factors, in
particular, motivation and commitment of the people involved should be kept in mind. In fact …

How a professionally qualified doctoral student bridged the practice-research gap: A confessional account of collaborative practice research

L Mathiassen, A Sandberg - European Journal of Information …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Information Systems (IS) is a profession-based discipline that constantly seeks new
ways to bridge the practice-research gap. These efforts include enacting scholar-practitioner …

Early fault detection with model-based testing

J Boberg - Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Current and future trends for software include increasingly complex requirements on
interaction between systems. As a result, the difficulty of system testing increases. Model …

Key challenges of improving agile teamwork

NB Moe - Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme …, 2013 - Springer
Inspect and adapt is essential to succeed with agile software development. Our objective
was to understand the challenges of software process improvement in agile software …

Methodology mashups: An exploration of processes used to maintain software

D Edberg, P Ivanova, W Kuechler - Journal of Management …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The majority of studies of software development processes explore initial development
rather than ongoing software maintenance, yet the majority of the systems development …