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Research challenges in large-scale agile software development

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Torgeir Dingsøyr,

Nils Brede MoeAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 38, Issue 5

Pages 38 - 39

https://doi.org/10.1145/2507288.2507322

Published: 26 August 2013 Publication History

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Agile software development methods are increasingly used in large-scale software development. This article summarizes some of the discussion on research challenges in large-scale agile development at a workshop at the International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2013), in the form of a research agenda.

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Research challenges in large-scale agile software development
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 38, Issue 5

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DOI:10.1145/2507288

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