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International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement

PROFES 2006: Product-Focused Software Process Improvement pp 79–93Cite as

Software Process Improvement with Agile Practices in a Large Telecom Company

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 4034))

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Besides the promise of rapid and efficient software development, agile methods are well-appreciated for boosting communication and motivation of development teams. However, they are not practical “as such” in large organizations, especially because of the well-established, rigid processes in the organizations. In this paper, we present a case study where a few agile practices were injected into the software process of a large organization in order to pilot pair programming and improve the motivation and competence build-up. The selected agile practices were pair programming, the planning game and collective code ownership. We show how we adjust these practices in order to integrate them into the existing software process of the company in the context of a real software project.

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  1. Oy L M Ericsson Ab, Telecom R&D, Lemminkäisenkatu 14-18C, FIN-20520, Turku, Finland

    Jussi Auvinen, Rasmus Back & Jeanette Heidenberg

  2. Turku Centre for Computer Science – TUCS, Åbo Akademi University, Lemminkäisenkatu 14 A, FIN-20520, Turku, Finland

    Piia Hirkman & Luka Milovanov

  3. Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research,  

    Piia Hirkman

  4. Department of Computer Science,  

    Luka Milovanov

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Jürgen Münch

  2. VTT Electronics, Kaitovayla 1, 90570, Oulu, Finland

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Auvinen, J., Back, R., Heidenberg, J., Hirkman, P., Milovanov, L. (2006). Software Process Improvement with Agile Practices in a Large Telecom Company. In: Münch, J., Vierimaa, M. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4034. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11767718_10

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