Perceptive agile measurement: New instruments for quantitative studies in the pursuit of the social-psychological effect of agile practices

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 31 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 83-93

  So, Chaehan ^a   Scholl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agile practices; co location; continuous integration; customer acceptance tests; customer access; iteration planning; iterative approach; measurement instruments; retrospectives; stand up meetings; test driven development

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INSTRUMENTS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SALES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TESTING;

AGILE PRACTICES; CO-LOCATION; CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION; CUSTOMER ACCEPTANCE TESTS; CUSTOMER ACCESS; ITERATION PLANNING; ITERATIVE APPROACH; MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS; RETROSPECTIVES; STAND-UP MEETINGS; TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT;

INSTRUMENT TESTING;

EID: 66749167616     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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