Abstract
In the recent few years more and more software development organizations are striving to adopt agile software development methods and techniques. Successful agile adoption leads to producing higher quality software, enhance developers moraland at a lower cost than the traditional water wall model approach. However, Agile adoption always comes with special challenges and accordingly, fundamental organizational changes are necessary for successful outcome. The main contribution of this paper is that we present a case study for agile adoption case in a government entity in the U.A.E and we compare and analyze the outcomesobtained with other published case studies in this domain.
Highlights
Agile software development is a relatively new approach for software development
In this paper we present an agile software development case study for a government entity in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E)
The rest of the paper is organized as follows: section 2 presents an overview of agile software adoption case studies, section 3 introduces a case study of adopting an agile method in a government entity in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), section 4 discusses the case study and compares it with similar studies in this area, and section 5 is a conclusion
Summary
Agile software development is a relatively new approach for software development. This approach has attracted the attention of development companies in the recent few years. Agile development definition varies from one resource to another; some resources define Agile development as [2] : “An iterative and incremental (evolutionary) approach to software development which is performed in a highly collaborative manner by self-organizing teams within an effective governance framework with ”just enough” ceremony that produces high quality software in a cost effective and timely manner which meets the changing needs of its stakeholders”. Another definition of Agile software development is [3]: “Agile Software Development is a concept, a philosophy and a methodology which evolved in the 90’s as an answer to the longgrowing frustrations of the waterfall SDLC concepts. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: section 2 presents an overview of agile software adoption case studies, section 3 introduces a case study of adopting an agile method in a government entity in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), section 4 discusses the case study and compares it with similar studies in this area, and section 5 is a conclusion
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