Executive Update

Agile Software Development Use: An Empirical Developer's Survey

Posted January 14, 2015 | Technology |

This Executive Update reveals that selected organizational and project factors encourage the use of Agile methods, while others discourage their use. While an understanding of adopting and using Agile approaches is emerging, more research -- preferably based on empirical data from real projects -- is needed to give better directions.

About The Author
Charles Butler
Charles W. Butler is a Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at Colorado State University. He teaches and conducts research in IT and collaborates with IT managers in developing improved IT management strategies and processes, software development methodologies, and metrics and QA for traditional and object software. For 15 years, Dr. Butler served as Chief Software Scientist for McCabe & Associates and completed… Read More
Leo Vijayasarathy
Leo R. Vijayasarathy is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at Colorado State University. Dr. Vijayasarathy's research on the development, use, and consequences of information systems has been published in Electronic Markets, European Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, Information & Management, Internet Research, International Journal of Production Economics,… Read More
Dan Turk
Dan Turk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at Colorado State University. His research interests are in the areas of computer networking, object-oriented systems, software engineering, business- and system-level modeling, software development process model-ing, the value of modeling, process improvement, and the empirical study of these areas. Dr. Turk has published papers in IEEE Transactions on Software… Read More
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