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Agile software development has become an umbrella term for a number of changes in how software developers work. This book presents a comprehensive snapshot of the knowledge gained over many years of research by those working closely with or in the industry.

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1 Agile Software Development: An Introduction and Overview. - 2 Towards an Understanding of the Conceptual Underpinnings of Agile Development Methodologies. - 3 Agile Software Development Methods: A Comparative Review. - 4 Three ´C´s of Agile Practice: Collaboration, Co-ordination and Communication. - 5 From Exotic to Mainstream: A 10-year Odyssey from Internet Speed to Boundary Spanning with Scrum. - 6 An Ideal Customer: A Grounded Theory of Requirements Elicitation, Communication and Acceptance on Agile Projects. - 7 Pair Programming: Issues and Challenges. - 8 Architected Agile Solutions for Software-Reliant Systems. - 9 Agile Interaction Design and Test-Driven Development of User Interfaces - A Literature Review. - 10 Organizational Culture and the Deployment of Agile Methods: The Competing Values Model View. - 11 Future Research in Agile Systems Development: Applying Open Innovation Principles Within the Agile Organisation

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"Your one-stop resource to agile software development." - from the Foreword by Hakan Erdogmus, Kalemun Research Inc., Ottawa, Canada

"[...] This broad survey of these [agile] methods discusses their most relevant aspects, advantages, and disadvantages. [...] Each self-contained paper includes its own references, yet all of them share a quasi-entomological look at the agile software development field, dissecting its merits and pitfalls. [...]" ACM Copmuting Review, Andrea Paramithiotti, January 2011

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Torgeir Dings›yr works with software process improvement and knowledge management projects as a senior scientist at SINTEF Information and Communication Technology, Trondheim, Norway. At the same time, he holds a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at NUST, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is a co-author of the book "Process Improvement in Practice - A Handbook for IT Companies". His current research interests include software process improvement, agile software development, and knowledge management in software engineering. Tore Dyb† is chief scientist and research manager at SINTEF Communication and Information Technology. He had worked as a consultant for eight years in Norway and Saudi Arabia before he joined SINTEF in 1994. His research interests include empirical and evidence-based software engineering, software process improvement, and organizational learning and he is the principal author of the book "Process Improvement in Practice: A Handbook for IT Companies. Nils Brede Moe is a research scientist at SINTEF Information and Communication. He has 11 years of experience working as a project manager and researcher within software development and is a co-author of the book "Process Improvement in Practice-A Handbook for IT Companies". His current research interests include global software development, process improvement, self-management, and agile software development.

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