Agile systems development (SD) is described as a cooperative game of invention and
communication, in which teams are characterized by relying heavily on informal …

Empirical research is playing a significant role in software engineering (SE), and it has been
applied to evaluate software artifacts and technologies. There have been a great number of …

Context The adoption of agile methods is a trend in global software development (GSD), but
may result in many challenges. One important challenge is architectural knowledge (AK) …

Moving beyond algorithms and big data as starting points for discussions about privacy, the
authors of Privacy After the Agile Turn focus our attention on the new modes of production of …

Many organizations have embraced agile methods. Studies show a trend of large-scale
application of agile frameworks company-wide. Emergent architecture design as part of an …

Transparency–the provision of information about what personal data is collected for which
purposes, how long it is stored, or to which parties it is transferred–is one of the core privacy …

Professional software products and IT systems and services today are developed mostly by
globally distributed teams, projects, and companies. Successfully orchestrating Global …

This paper describes our experience in trying to transfer our revised software engineering
curriculum from UC Berkeley to other universities. We were in the first wave of Massive Open …

Background: Agile methods are no longer restricted to small projects and co-located teams.
The last decade has seen the spread of agile into large scale, distributed and regulated …

Distributed software engineering and agility are strongly pushing on today's software
industry. Due to inherent incompatibilities, for years, studying Scrum and its application in …