Tailoring agile methodologies to the southern african environment

  • Authors:

  • Ernest Mnkandla;Barry Dwolatzky;Sifiso Mlotshwa

  • Affiliations:

  • South Africa, School of Information Technology, Monash University, Roodepoort, Johannesburg, South Africa;School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Wits, South Africa;eSolutions, Greendale, Harare, Zimbabwe

  • Venue:
  • XP'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The present movement in the adoption of agile methodologies as a contemporary approach to the management of the software development processes has seen a growing trend towards the selection of relevant practices from the agile family as opposed to the adoption of specific methods. This paper reports work-in-progress of a proposed novel modeling technique for tailoring methodologies to a particular environment using the family of methodologies approach. The tool is being applied by one software development organisation in Southern Africa and the partial results are included in this paper.