Do Agile Methods Increase Productivity and Quality

Gabriela Robiolo; Daniel Grane

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Do Agile Methods Increase Productivity and Quality

Gabriela Robiolo, Daniel Grane

Published in American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (Volume 3, Issue 1)

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Abstract

The Agile methods popped up in the history of software development methods as a solution to several frequent problems, but what is still not clear is whether they produce a significant improvement in productivity and quality or not, if they are compared to the traditional software development methods. In order to clarify this issue and contribute to a better understanding of these methods, we designed an empirical study in which Agile and traditional methods were compared in an academic context. By applying a traditional method to the development of software products, we managed to obtain a more reproducible result, though we could not obtain evidence of an improvement in quality. On the contrary, by applying an Agile method, we obtained evidence of higher productivity, but with a significant dispersion, an aspect that would be interesting to analyze in future studies

Published in	American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (Volume 3, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajsea.20140301.11
Page(s)	1-11
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Agile, Rup, Scrum, Productivity, Quality, Extreme Programming

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Informatica, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Informatica, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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