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What Is Large in Large-Scale? A Taxonomy of Scale for Agile Software Development

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2014)

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Positive experience of agile development methods in smaller projects has created interest in the applicability of such methods in larger scale projects. However, there is a lack of conceptual clarity regarding what large-scale agile software development is. This inhibits effective collaboration and progress in the research area. In this paper, we suggest a taxonomy of scale for agile software development projects that has the potential to clarify what topics researchers are studying and ease discussion of research priorities.

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  1. SINTEF, NO-7465, Trondheim, Norway

    Torgeir Dingsøyr & Tor Erlend Fægri

  2. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    Torgeir Dingsøyr

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalto University, FI-00076, Aalto, Finland

    Juha Itkonen

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  1. Fraunhofer IESE, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Jedlitschka

  2. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, FI-90014, Finland

    Pasi Kuvaja

  3. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense, Denmark

    Marco Kuhrmann

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Tomi Männistö  & Jürgen Münch  & 

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalto University, 00076, Aalto, Finland

    Mikko Raatikainen

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Dingsøyr, T., Fægri, T.E., Itkonen, J. (2014). What Is Large in Large-Scale? A Taxonomy of Scale for Agile Software Development . In: Jedlitschka, A., Kuvaja, P., Kuhrmann, M., Männistö, T., Münch, J., Raatikainen, M. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8892. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13835-0_20

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