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A Reference Model for Software Agility Assessment: AgilityMod

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Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE 2015)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 526))

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In this paper, we present AgilityMod that we developed with the purpose of identifying agility levels of software development projects, indicating agility gaps and providing roadmaps to organizations in adopting agile principles/practices. AgilityMod shares the meta-model structure of ISO/IEC 15504, software process assessment model, however, it differentiates from ISO/IEC 15504 in terms of its process architecture, process descriptions and description of other model elements. In this paper, we focus on the structure of the Model and describe the development stages of the Model. In addition, we briefly present a multiple case study that included eight cases, which was conducted to identify applicability and suitability of the Model.

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    Ozden Ozcan-Top & Onur Demirörs

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Ozcan-Top, O., Demirörs, O. (2015). A Reference Model for Software Agility Assessment: AgilityMod. In: Rout, T., O’Connor, R., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 526. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19860-6_12

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