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Results of the 2nd International Workshop on the Impact of Agile Practices (ImpAct 2017)

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At present, agile development is a dominating development process in software engineering. Yet, due to different contexts, also agile methods require adaptations (e.g. Scrum-but). Since adaptation means adding, modifying or dropping some agile elements, it is important to know what the effects and importance of these elements are. Given the weak state of empirical evidence in this area, we initiated the workshop series on the Impact of Agile Practices (ImpAct). This paper provides a summary of the second workshop of this series, especially its lightning talks and discussions. The major outcomes include interesting observations such as negatively rated practices and contradicting experiences as well as follow-up activities ordered in a roadmap.

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    XP '17: Proceedings of the XP2017 Scientific Workshops
    May 2017
    124 pages
    ISBN:9781450352642
    DOI:10.1145/3120459
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    3. agile practices
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