Agile Methods

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods, WBMA 2017, held in Belém, Brazil, in September 2017. The 10 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions.

The papers present empirical studies on agile values and principles; agile practices; agile adoption; agile testing and quality; metrics; conceptual studies; cultural aspects on agile business; organizational transformation and future trends.

Inhalt
Agile Principles, Lean Manufacturing and Other Disciplines.- Towards a Definition of Simplicity in Agile Software Development: A Focus Group Study.- Agile Testing and Quality: Techniques, Patterns and Automated Support.- ASA: Agile Software Development Self-Assessment Method.- Agile Testing in Brazil: A Systematic Mapping.- Metrics, Measurements and Mining Repositories in the Context of Agile.- Using Function Points in Agile Projects: A Comparative Analysis between Existing Approaches.- Adoption of Agile / Lean.- Agile in 3D: Agility in the Animation Studio.- Concerns and Limitations in Agile Software Development: A Survey with Paraguayan Companies.- Scrum and the 10 Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies of Empretec.- An Agile Approach Applied in Enterprise Project Management Office.- Conceptual Studies and Theoretical Foundations of Agile / Lean.- Metamodel for requirements traceability and impact analysis on agile methods.- Organizational Transformation and Cultural Aspects on Agile Business.- For Some Places More Than Others - Agility and Organizational Culture.- Agile Practices and Future Trends, Evolution and Revolution (Technical or Managerial).- A Study on the Perception of Researchers about the Application of Agile Software Development Methods in Research.- Mob Programming in an academic setting. <p