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An Empirical Study on the Adoption of Agile Software Development in Public Organizations

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Agile Methods (WBMA 2016)

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The government has been adopting agile software development in order to improve the results of their IT projects. However, there is a lack of structured information about its adoption in this context. Since the public sector have undergone a significant process of modernization to improve the quality of public service, the goal of this study is to report from an empirical study, provide information that may enhance the understanding of the implications of adopting agile software development within public organizations, proposing a set of recommendations for its adoption.

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  1. Free Software Laboratory, Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Isaque Vacari

  2. Computer Science School, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Rafael Prikladnicki

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  1. Universidade Federal de São Paulo , São José dos Campos, Brazil

    Tiago Silva da Silva

  2. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Bernardo Estácio

  3. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Josiane Kroll

  4. Universidade Federal do Paraná , Curitiba, Brazil

    Rafaela Mantovani Fontana

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Vacari, I., Prikladnicki, R. (2017). An Empirical Study on the Adoption of Agile Software Development in Public Organizations. In: Silva da Silva, T., Estácio, B., Kroll, J., Mantovani Fontana, R. (eds) Agile Methods. WBMA 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 680. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55907-0_1

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