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Results of the 1st International Workshop on Impact of Agile Practices (ImpAct 2015)

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Agile software development has become well known to the community and is nowadays frequently used for the development of different kinds of software systems. Agile methods are widely spread and often adapted to the context-specific needs. The adaptations constitute reductions and/or extensions of agile practices. Yet, we have limited knowledge about the impact of some of the individual practices, which is crucial to justify organizational process improvements. To work on this topic, we initiated an international workshop and invited researchers and practitioners to work on different aspects related to the impact of agile practices (ImpAct). This paper presents the results and future work of the first ImpAct-workshop. We will report in particular on a meta-model for the impact of agile practices, how to deal with context-aspects, and we instantiated some impacts based on experiences of the workshop participants. In all these areas among other, we also identified some questions relevant for future work.

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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes  Volume 40, Issue 6
November 2015
77 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/2830719
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Published: 11 November 2015
Published in SIGSOFT Volume 40, Issue 6

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  1. Software processes
  2. agile
  3. agile development
  4. agile practices
  5. causal model
  6. impact model
  7. knowledge base
  8. software process improvement (SPI)
  9. workshop notes

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  • (2017)Results of the 2nd International Workshop on the Impact of Agile Practices (ImpAct 2017)Proceedings of the XP2017 Scientific Workshops10.1145/3120459.3120484(1-3)Online publication date: 22-May-2017
  • (2016)ICSSP 2015-Special Issue IntroductionJournal of Software: Evolution and Process10.1002/smr.178628:9(716-721)Online publication date: 18-Apr-2016

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