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Definitions of Agile Software Development and Agility

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The Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles are typically referred to as the definitions of "agile" and "agility". However, many other definitions exist in the literature. Thus the different definitions provide interesting source for research. For each definition we examine where their emphasis is and compare that to the emphases found in the Agile Principles.

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  1. Nitor Delta, Finland

    Maarit Laanti

  2. University of Oulu, Finland

    Jouni Similä

  3. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

    Pekka Abrahamsson

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    Fergal McCaffery

  2. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  3. ISCN, Graz, Austria

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Laanti, M., Similä, J., Abrahamsson, P. (2013). Definitions of Agile Software Development and Agility. In: McCaffery, F., O’Connor, R.V., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 364. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39179-8_22

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