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Published in: Information Systems Frontiers 2/2018

16-07-2016

Scaling for agility: A reference model for hybrid traditional-agile software development methodologies

Authors: Asif Qumer Gill, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Mahmood Niazi

Published in: Information Systems Frontiers | Issue 2/2018

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Abstract

The adoption of agility at a large scale often requires the integration of agile and non-agile development elements for architecting a hybrid adaptive methodology. The challenge is ”which elements or components (agile or non-agile) are relevant to develop the context-aware hybrid adaptive methodology reference architecture?” This paper addresses this important challenge and develops a hybrid adaptive methodology reference architecture model using a qualitative constructive empirical research approach. In this way, we have uncovered the agility, abstraction, business value, business policy, rules, legal, context and facility elements or components that have not been explicitly modelled or discussed in International Standards (IS) such as the ISO/IEC 24744 metamodel. It is anticipated that a context-aware hybrid adaptive methodology can be architected by using the proposed context-aware hybrid adaptive methodology reference architecture elements for a particular situation when using a situational method engineering approach.
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Abstraction element may be named as ‘mindset’.
 
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Metadata
Title
Scaling for agility: A reference model for hybrid traditional-agile software development methodologies
Authors
Asif Qumer Gill
Brian Henderson-Sellers
Mahmood Niazi
Publication date
16-07-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Information Systems Frontiers / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 1387-3326
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9419
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-016-9672-8

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