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Title:
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AGILE CHALLENGES FROM A SCRUM PROJECT |
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Author(s):
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Hilary Berger, Carl M. Jones |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8704-04-7 |
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Editors:
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Philip Powell, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2014 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Agile Development, Commercial Contracts, Scrum, Technical Debt, Velocity, WIP. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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193 |
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Last Page:
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200 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Our contribution to the wealth of research surrounding Agile development lies in an empirical study that examines a recently implemented Government IS project. Despite full management endorsement for an Agile philosophy the organizations traditional, linear pre-development stages created a tension between senior management and the developers. Focus on the commercial journey, driven by the non-Agile upfront plan driven stages, impeded the benefit from Agiles iterative development cycles being fully realized. In order to develop the right product the constraints posed by the longer, fixed term commercial cycles need to respond to development driven changes captured by developers through the rapid feedback loops. We propose that where Agile projects answer to preceding plan driven strategies there is a need to re-direct focus to accommodate a different journey that reflects actual client needs (an Agile tenet). |
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