Examining perceptions of agility in software development practice

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 126-130

  De Cesare, Sergio ^a   Lycett, Mark ^a   MacRedie, Robert D ^a   Patel, Chaitali ^b   Paul, Ray ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Agilisys   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE MOVEMENT; AGILE PRACTICES; CAPABILITY MATURITY MODELS; COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES; COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION; CONTRACT NEGOTIATION; CURRENT PRACTICES; CUSTOMER COLLABORATION; ENGINEERING ASPECTS; EXPERIENCE REPORT; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; PLAN-BASED; PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE CRISIS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES; SOFTWARE PROCESS; STRUCTURED METHOD; SYSTEMATIC PROCESS; UNIFIED PROCESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SPICE; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77953181786     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1743546.1743580     Document Type: Article

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