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The integration of user-centred design and Agile development is becoming increasingly common in companies and appears promising. However, it may also present some critical points, or communication breakdowns, which manifest in working practices. A solution is likely to be found in a supportive organisational context: in this sense, communication breakdowns can become focal points to drive action and decision for establishing an organisational environment acknowledging the value of user involvement and actively endorsing it also with the customer.

2017.

prof. Antonella De Angeli, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy.

Email: antonella.deangeli@disi.unitn.it

Empirical studies covering Agility at the organisational scale are few in number. Organisations seeking clarity about the efficacy of any approach to business Agility must turn to the commercial literature for information and guidance. As a whole, research into Agile Software Development suffers from a lack of rigour and theoretical grounding, a problem also evident in Information Systems research in general. These issues have led to recent calls for a clear research agenda for scaling Agility and for the quality of contributions to be addressed. Diffusions research has a long history in a wide range of domains and provides a clear theoretical framework for this qualitative PhD study.

Unlike traditional software development approaches, Agile embraces change. The resulting dynamism of requirements makes it challenging to estimate effort accurately. Current practice relies on expert-judgment that can be biased, labor intensive and inaccurate. Therefore, a systematic yet lightweight effort estimation methodology is needed to support expert judgment and improve its effectiveness. Such an approach will utilize the quantification of the impact of a requirement on software artifacts potentially affected by it. It will further introduce an explicit consideration of effort drivers that contribute to effort overhead. The aim is to synthesize research from three often orthogonal areas of research: (1) change impact analysis, (2) effort estimation (model and expert driven) and (3) software visualization. Hence, resulting in a hybrid methodology with tool support that incorporates expert knowledge, change impact analysis and enables an explicit consideration of cost drivers by experts to improve the effectiveness of effort estimation process.

Agile methods are increasingly being applied to large scale and distributed software development. While there is much evidence to support the efficiency of agile practices in small co-located team, less is known about the applicability of these practices to large scale projects. This paper gives an outline of planned research on the scaling of retrospectives. By using retrospectives as an empirical lens I will try to gain insight into the limitations and benefits of agile practices in large scale and distributed development.

This proposal is design to address the proposed research work on agile software development and architecture co-existence. The objective of this research is to answer how architecting activities emerge and evolve with agile software development in industry. The architecting activities are architectural analysis (AA), architectural synthesis (AS), architectural evaluation (AE), architectural implementation (AI), architectural maintenance and evolution (AME), architectural recovery (AR), architectural description (ADp), architectural understanding (AU), architectural impact analysis (AIA), architectural reuse (ARu) and architectural refactoring (ARf). This research objective could achieve by using multiple research methods. We are planning to use comprehensively report the pure ‘state- of- practice’ for architecting activities in ASD from industry and practitioners point of views. Therefore, we decided to use the case studies, survey and semi structure interview as research methods. The result of this research work can provide the baseline information for architecture evolution frameworks for agile software development, challenges and solutions in ASD for SA activities, expected evolvable dimensions of the software system, methods that may help for minimizing the architectural and agile co-existence issues and architectural technical debt in agile software development.