Agile Manifesto and Practices Selection for Tailoring Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Agile methods have been largely used for many years to provide developers with a flexible software development process leading to software quality improvement. To get the best results and eliminate unnecessary efforts, the development team should select the most appropriate methods and techniques. The fundamental core of an agile method has to be well-understood before deciding which parts of the method need to be adopted. We believe that the quickest way to do so is to understand the prescripts of the Agile Manifesto. Many researches have proposed different tailoring approaches based on the relation and straightforward interpretation between each agile practice and agile values or principles. We however have observed that agile practitioners do not dedicate the necessary attention to the Agile Manifesto before adopting agile methods or practices and directly use them. It is because the importance of Agile Manifesto in tailoring context is not obvious enough to the community. This study aims at doing a systematic literature review on the existing case studies, to verify the relation between the Agile Manifesto and agile practice selection.

OBAMA, an Ontology-Based Software Tool for Agile Method Adoption

“…• If users want to filter the information based on goals, they need to provide input values in the "Input page 1". Since most goals in adopting agile methods can be mapped to the Agile Manifesto (Kiv et al, 2018), we provide on this page a list of agile values and principles from which users can choose;…”

Project-Based Learning in Design and Multimedia in Higher Education: An Interactive Timeline Developed in Collaboration

“…Starting from the session in which the client presented the project briefing to the whole class, the solutions were developed using an agile approach [12], [13], allowing for an incremental and iterative production [14]- [18]. This approach implies that, at any given time, designers shall not assume that they have a perfect understanding of the client's needs nor of how users will perceive the resulting production.…”

Agile Methods Knowledge Representation for Systematic Practices Adoption

“…(1) the repository proposed in [8], (2) the influence of the agile manifesto over agile practice selection studied in [13], and (3) the real case studies collected in research community (see Section 5).…”

“…In [13] shows the importance of agile manifesto, i.e., agile values and principles, in adopting agile methods, and in [12] explains its relationship with practices. Understanding the agile manifesto allows us to know why we want to adopt an agile practice.…”

“…To collect the documents that report about applying a specific agile practice in real projects, we basically followed the steps for conducting SLR described in [13]. We briefly describe those steps hereafter:…”