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Systematic Agile Development in Regulated Environments

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2020)

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For established domains within highly regulated environments, a systematic approach is needed to scale agile methods and assure compliance with regulatory requirements. This paper presents a structured method to designing such a systematic approach which works adequately in small agile teams. It is independent of the underlying method such as Scrum, Kanban, etc., and is scalable to more and bigger teams or even entire subsidiaries. It is based on a compliance and a quality risk dimension which are both needed to fit regulatory requirements. The approach has been validated in the financial IT context with more than 100 developers in one subsidiary.

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  1. Volkswagen AG, Berliner Ring 2, 38436, Wolfsburg, Germany

    Alexander Poth

  2. Volkswagen Financial Services AG, 38112, Brunswick, Germany

    Jan Jacobsen

  3. Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G-SCOP, 38031, Grenoble, France

    Andreas Riel

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  3. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

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Poth, A., Jacobsen, J., Riel, A. (2020). Systematic Agile Development in Regulated Environments. In: Yilmaz, M., Niemann, J., Clarke, P., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_14

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