Improving Software Project Management by Applying Agile Methodologies: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 672-685
Author(s):  
Antonio Quiña-Mera ◽  
Lincon Chamorro Andrade ◽  
Javier Montaluisa Yugla ◽  
Doris Chicaiza Angamarca ◽  
Cathy Pamela Guevara-Vega
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Agile Methodologies

eXtreme Programming, Agile Methodologies, Software Project Management, Customer Role, Rigorous Testing

2022 ◽  
pp. 163-182
Author(s):  
Kamalendu Pal
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Acceptance Testing ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Agile Methodologies ◽  
Rigorous Testing ◽  
Software Development Methodologies

Agile software development methodologies are attracting attention from academics and practitioners for planning and managing software projects. The eXtreme Programming (XP) challenges conformist wisdom regarding software system development processes and practices as agile methodologies. To work efficiently in the current software development practice, characterized by requirements fuzziness, XP moves away from document-centric operations into people-centric management. In the XP-based software project, the customers play an essential role, having multiple responsibilities such as driving the project, gathering requirements (‘user stories'), and exercising quality control (or acceptance testing). Besides, the customers must liaise with external project stakeholders (e.g., funding authorities, end-users) while maintaining the development team's trust and the wider business. The success of such software project management practices relies on the quality result of each stage of development obtained through rigorous testing. This chapter describes three characteristics of XP project management: customer role, software testing feedback, and learning.

scholarly journals The Effects of Agile Methodologies on Software Project Management in Pakistani Software Companies

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1717-1727
Author(s):  
Javed Iqbal Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Software Project Management ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Software Companies ◽  
Agile Methodologies ◽  
Management Factors ◽  
Main Determinants

Agile methodologies are always tends to increase the quality of software and also handling the complex software projects. However, the software companies in Pakistan have recently felt the disparity of producing successful software. In this context, an extensive survey has been conducted in 52 prominent software development companies of Pakistan to identify this remedy and the motivation behind this production discrepancy. It is revealed from the survey that there is a lack of empirical evidence in the relationship of agile methodologies with the effective and progressive management of software project management factors including, schedule, scope, risk, budget, quality and resources. Therefore, the proposed study delivers an extensive statistical comparison to determine the effectiveness of agile methodologies in terms of their effects on the project management factors. The results suggest that in general all agile methodologies play a significant role towards the successful software development in the software company. However, Extreme Programming, Scrum, Kanban and Agile modeling are the main determinants of production disparity among software companies. Furthermore, it is determined that the quality factor has a positive correlation with the rest of the factors. It is also found that the budget factor has significantly correlated with other five factors, while rest of the factors has insignificant correlation. We have also compared agile methodologies in terms of project management factors, which specify that each agile methodology has its own importance and effect with respect to managing different factors of project management.

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