Scaling for agility: A reference model for hybrid traditional-agile software development methodologies

Asif Qumer Gill (), Brian Henderson-Sellers () and Mahmood Niazi
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Asif Qumer Gill: University of Technology Sydney
Mahmood Niazi: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)

Information Systems Frontiers, 2018, vol. 20, issue 2, No 11, 315-341

Abstract: Abstract The adoption of agility at a large scale often requires the integration of agile and non-agile development elements for architecting a hybrid adaptive methodology. The challenge is ”which elements or components (agile or non-agile) are relevant to develop the context-aware hybrid adaptive methodology reference architecture?” This paper addresses this important challenge and develops a hybrid adaptive methodology reference architecture model using a qualitative constructive empirical research approach. In this way, we have uncovered the agility, abstraction, business value, business policy, rules, legal, context and facility elements or components that have not been explicitly modelled or discussed in International Standards (IS) such as the ISO/IEC 24744 metamodel. It is anticipated that a context-aware hybrid adaptive methodology can be architected by using the proposed context-aware hybrid adaptive methodology reference architecture elements for a particular situation when using a situational method engineering approach.

Keywords: Agile methods; Reference architecture; Methodology architecture; Method engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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