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Today, as always, many different initiatives are under way to improve the ways in which software is developed. The most popular and prevalent of these is the agile movement. One of the newer kids on the block is the Software Engineering Method and Theory initiative. In this article we demonstrate ho...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM 2013-11, Vol.56 (11), p.52
Main Authors: Jacobson, Ivar, Spence, Ian, Ng, Pan-Wei
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Software
Software development
Software engineering
Systems development
Theory
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Summary:Today, as always, many different initiatives are under way to improve the ways in which software is developed. The most popular and prevalent of these is the agile movement. One of the newer kids on the block is the Software Engineering Method and Theory initiative. In this article we demonstrate how these two initiatives support each other and we discuss the benefits of using them together. Generally speaking, both initiatives promote non-prescriptive value-based philosophies that encourage software development teams to select and use whatever practices best fit their context and, more importantly, continuously inspect, adapt, and improve their ways of working. The agile movement has provided a new way of looking at the day-to-day activities of software development -- how teams are built and work is organized. Agile provides a set of values that influence and shape the way software developers go about their daily work and interact with one another, their customers, and their stakeholders.
ISSN:0001-0782
1557-7317