Название: Balancing Agile and Disciplined Engineering and Management Approaches for IT Services and Software Products
Автор: Manuel Mora, Jorge Marx Gomez
Издательство: IGI Global
Год: 2021
Страниц: 378
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 11.0 MB, 15.3 MB

The highly dynamic world of information technology service management stresses the benefits of the quick and correct implementation of IT services. A disciplined approach relies on a separate set of assumptions and principles as an agile approach, both of which have complicated implementation processes as well as copious benefits. Combining these two approaches to enhance the effectiveness of each, while difficult, can yield exceptional dividends.

Balancing Agile and Disciplined Engineering and Management Approaches for IT Services and Software Products is an essential publication that focuses on clarifying theoretical foundations of balanced design methods with conceptual frameworks and empirical cases. Highlighting a broad range of topics including business trends, IT service, and software development, this book is ideally designed for software engineers, software developers, programmers, information technology professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.

While several Agile Software-System Development methods (such as Scrum, XP) have permeated in the Software Engineering academic and professional communities in the last 10 years, they have been also criticized for trying of using them in all kind of software engineering projects and by their large learning curve to be mastered.

Even inventors of the main agile methodologies have indicated subtly that agile methods do not imply easiness of utilization. For instance, Beck reported “XP is simple in its details, but it is hard to execute”. Similarly, Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland “SCRUM is: lightweight, simple to understand, (but) difficult to master”. Additionally, while some studies have reported that agile software-system development methods help to reduce the negative effects of technical debts, other studies have also reported that agile software-system development methods are prone to introduce technical debts by “an emphasis on quick delivery and architecture and design issues”

Consequently, this book asked high-quality research-oriented chapters related to the following topics - but not limited to:

- Agile, disciplined and balanced values, principles and assumptions for software or IT services development
- Agile, disciplined and balanced software or IT services development methods
- Agile, disciplined and balanced software or IT services process frameworks and standards
- Successful/failed case studies on agile, disciplined and balanced software or IT services development process
- Surveys on the utilization of agile, disciplined and balanced software or IT services development process
- Teaching cases on agile, disciplined and balanced software or IT services development process
- Open source tools for agile, disciplined and balanced software or IT services development process
- Impact of emergent technologies (cloud, microservices, IoT) on agile, disciplined and balanced software or IT services development process
- Impact of business trends (digitalization, industry 4.0, analytics, big data) on agile, disciplined and balanced software or IT services development process
- Challenges and trends of agile, disciplined and balanced software or IT services development process