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Artefacts in Agile Software Development

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2015)

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Abstract

Agile software development methods prefer limited use of artefacts. On the basis of existing artefact models and results from three case studies we present a Scrum artefact model. In this model we notice teams using Scrum artefacts, but they, in addition, decided to produce various non-Scrum artefacts, most notably design documents, test plans and user or release related materials.

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Notes

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    A Process-Deliverable Diagram describes both processes and deliverables in one diagram [34]; the interpretation of deliverable in a PDD is analogous to our artefact.

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    NVivo is a software package to aid qualitative data analysis designed by QSR (http://www.qsrinternational.com).

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    A description can be found at: www.collab.net.

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    A description can be found at: www.git-scm.com.

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    A description can be found at: www.serena.com.

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The results from this research would not have been possible without the generous cooperation from the three case study organizations. The (first) author also wants to express his gratitude to Avans University of Applied Sciences for facilitating and supporting this research.

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    Gerard Wagenaar

  2. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Remko Helms & Sjaak Brinkkemper

  3. University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

    Daniela Damian

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Wagenaar, G., Helms, R., Damian, D., Brinkkemper, S. (2015). Artefacts in Agile Software Development. In: Abrahamsson, P., Corral, L., Oivo, M., Russo, B. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9459. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26844-6_10

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