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The widespread need for flexibility and adaptability in software development processes has resulted in the emergence of Agile practices and principles. Although different in fine-grained detail, all agile methodologies follow a common approach in their processes. To expose the common paradigm behind the design of agile processes, we have developed FRAME (FRactal Agile MEtamodel), a generic fractal process metamodel for agile process frameworks. Recursive application of FRAME at different levels of process design results in the specification of a configurable process framework; this framework serves as a basis for constructing agile methodologies through paradigm-based Situational Method Engineering (SME). In order to explore how FRAME is manifest in existing agile processes, relevant activity patterns have been extracted from seven prominent agile processes, thus forming a repository of concrete FRAME components.
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Sadi, M.H., Ramsin, R. (2009). FRAME: A Generic Fractal Process Metamodel for Agile Methodologies. In: Lee, R., Ishii, N. (eds) Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications 2009. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05441-9_22
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