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Toward a conceptual framework of agile methods: a study of agility in different disciplines
Date
2004
Abstract
Since the software crisis of the 1960’s, numerous methodologies have been developed to impose a disciplined process upon software development. It is now widely accepted that these methodologies are unsuccessful and unpopular due to their increasingly bureaucratic nature. Many researchers and practitioners are calling for these heavyweight methodologies to be replaced by agile methods. The Agile Manifesto was put forward in 2001, and several method instantiations, such as XP, SCRUM and Crystal exist. Each adheres to some principles of the Agile Manifesto and disregards others. This paper proposes that these Agile Manifesto principles are insufficiently grounded in theory, and are largely naïve to the concept of agility outside the field of software development. This paper aims to develop a comprehensive framework of software development agility, through a thorough review of agility across many disciplines. We then elaborate and evaluate the framework in a software development context, through a review of software related research over the last 30 years.
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peer-reviewed
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Citation
WISER '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Interdisciplinary software engineering research;pp. 37-44
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2004_Conboy.pdf
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Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)