An evaluation of the degree of agility in six agile methods and its applicability for method engineering

  • Authors:

  • A. Qumer;B. Henderson-Sellers

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia;Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Information and Software Technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

While agile methods are in use in industry, little research has been undertaken into what is meant by agility and how a supposed agile method can be evaluated with regard to its veracity to belong to this category of software development methodological approaches. Here, an analytical framework, called 4-DAT, is developed and applied to six well-known agile methods and, for comparison, two traditional methods. The results indicate the degree of agility to be found in each method, from which a judgement can be made as to whether the appellation of ''agile'' to that method is appropriate. This information is shown to be useful, for example, when constructing a methodology from method fragments (method engineering) and when comparing agile and traditional methods.