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Empirical Evaluation of Agile Practices Impact on Team Productivity

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2011)

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Agile methods have become more popular since the early 2000s and, in some cases, can offer better results for software development projects when compared to traditional approaches. Agile methods promise to achieve high productivity and to deliver high-quality software, attracting the attention of companies, which demand ever-higher development speed and quality in their products.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil

    Claudia de O. Melo & Fabio Kon

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  1. Free University of Bolzano, Piazza Domenicani, 3, 39100, Bolzano, Italy

    Alberto Sillitti

  2. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    Orit Hazzan

  3. Bache Consulting, Flunsåsliden 25, 418 71, Göteborg, Sweden

    Emily Bache

  4. Everis, Avda Diagonal, 605, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Albaladejo

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de O. Melo, C., Kon, F. (2011). Empirical Evaluation of Agile Practices Impact on Team Productivity. In: Sillitti, A., Hazzan, O., Bache, E., Albaladejo, X. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 77. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20677-1_26

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