Obstacles in moving to agile software development methods; At a Glance

Journal of Computer Science

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 620-625

  Gandomani, Taghi Javdani ^a   Zulzalil, Hazura ^a   Ghani, Abdul Azim Abdul ^a   Sultan, Abu Bakar Md ^a   Nafchi, Mina Ziaei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Agile adoption; Agile software development; Agile software methods; Agile transformation process; Obstacles in agile transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880142906     PISSN: 15493636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/jcssp.2013.620.625     Document Type: Article

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