Journal of the Society of Project Management
Online ISSN : 2433-3069
Print ISSN : 1345-031X
Quality management activities for Agile development and its evaluation
Nao AdachiKenichi HiranoHisako HikitaAtsushi YamanakaMegumi Tanaka
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2011 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 24-29

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Agile development is a software development methodology which emphasizes individuals' collaboration and interactions, working software more than plan driven waterfall development. It is evolved in recent years compared with waterfall development, and said that more adaptive to changes (which frequently occur in system construction projects) than heavyweight methods. But to adopt agile development for mission critical system construction projects, we must mature quality management for agile development and get customer satisfaction. Most of agile development methodologies do not systematize quality management in the present. Therefore, verification and consideration whether quality management practices for waterfall development are adoptable to agile development is necessary. This paper explains about quality management activities for agile development using real project example which is characterized by collaboration with offshore vendor. And evaluating the metrics of quality for agile development compared with its for waterfall development.
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