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Modern software applications, particularly those for mobile devices and web applications, are fundamentally different from traditional applications. Many of those applications are developed by startup businesses, which are under time and financial pressure to release their applications as quickly as possible. They have chosen to use agile methods for their development activities, largely because the administrative overhead for the process is low and the release cycle for the product is short. In this chapter, we contrast software processes based on the amount of management overhead (“ceremony”), describing the characteristics of startup businesses and their use of low-ceremony processes.
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Wasserman, A.I. (2016). Low Ceremony Processes for Short Lifecycle Projects. In: Kuhrmann, M., Münch, J., Richardson, I., Rausch, A., Zhang, H. (eds) Managing Software Process Evolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31545-4_1
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