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Tailoring Agile Methodologies to the Southern African Environment

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Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2005)

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The present movement in the adoption of agile methodologies as a contemporary approach to the management of the software development processes has seen a growing trend towards the selection of relevant practices from the agile family as opposed to the adoption of specific methods. This paper reports work-in-progress of a proposed novel modeling technique for tailoring methodologies to a particular environment using the family of methodologies approach. The tool is being applied by one software development organisation in Southern Africa and the partial results are included in this paper.

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  1. South Africa, School of Information Technology, Monash University, Private Bag X60, Roodepoort, Johannesburg, 1725, South Africa

    Ernest Mnkandla

  2. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. Box 542, Wits, 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Barry Dwolatzky

  3. eSolutions, 55 Rossal Rd, Greendale, Harare, Zimbabwe

    Sifiso Mlotshwa

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  1. Ernest Mnkandla
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  1. Informatik og Matematisk Modellering, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Lyngby

    Hubert Baumeister

  2. FlossLab s.r.l., viale Elmas, 142, 09122, Cagliari, Italy

    Michele Marchesi

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK

    Mike Holcombe

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Mnkandla, E., Dwolatzky, B., Mlotshwa, S. (2005). Tailoring Agile Methodologies to the Southern African Environment. In: Baumeister, H., Marchesi, M., Holcombe, M. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3556. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11499053_41

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