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Software Process Improvement with Agile Practices in a Large Telecom Company

Jussi Auvinen, Rasmus Back, Jeanette Heidenberg, Piia Hirkman, Luka Milovanov, Software Process Improvement with Agile Practices in a Large Telecom Company. In: Jürgen Münch, Matias Vierimaa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - PROFES 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 12-14, 2006, 4034, 79–93, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2006.

Abstract:

Besides the promise of rapid and efficient software development, agile methods are well-appreciated for boosting communication and motivation of development teams. However, they are not practical ''as such'' in large organizations, especially because of the well-established, rigid processes in the organizations. In this paper, we present a case study where a few agile practices were injected into the software process of a large organization in order to pilot pair programming and improve the motivation and competence build-up. The selected agile practices were pair programming, the planning game and collective code ownership. We show how we adjust these practices in order to integrate them into the existing software process of the company in the context of a real software project.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpAuBaHeHiMi06a,
  title = {Software Process Improvement with Agile Practices in a Large Telecom Company},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - PROFES 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 12-14, 2006},
  author = {Auvinen, Jussi and Back, Rasmus and Heidenberg, Jeanette and Hirkman, Piia and Milovanov, Luka},
  volume = {4034},
  editor = {Münch, Jürgen and Vierimaa, Matias},
  publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
  pages = {79–93},
  year = {2006},
}

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