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In this study we were able to gather a substantial quantity of detailed responses from a group of individuals and companies that are broadly quite similar to those found in several of the major world centers of technological innovation. As such, our analysis of the results provides some tantalizing hints to organizational and methodological challenges and practices of a broad range of groups.
One intriguing suggestion is that while “traditional” and well defined Agile groups function according to the standards established to support those approaches, Quasi-Agile groups do not. Instead, Quasi-Agile groups seem to pursue the goals of Agile using measures and underlying approaches more similar to traditional methods. One might expect that such a discordance to affect the effectiveness of a group’s efforts.
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Ivanov, V. et al. (2020). Comparison of Agile, Quasi-Agile and Traditional Methodologies. In: Ciancarini, P., Mazzara, M., Messina, A., Sillitti, A., Succi, G. (eds) Proceedings of 6th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications. SEDA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 925. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14687-0_11
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