Scaling agile methods to regulated environments: An industry case study

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 863-872

  Fitzgerald, Brian ^a   Stol, Klaas Jan ^a   O'Sullivan, Ryan ^b   O'Brien, Donal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b QUMAS   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agile methods; case study; regulated environments; Scrum

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT METHODS; AGILE METHODS; ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC; INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES; REGULATED ENVIRONMENTS; RIGOROUS RESEARCH; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; SCRUM;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84886426545     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606635     Document Type: Conference Paper

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