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Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed

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Software Engineering Research and Applications (SERA 2003)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 3026))

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Future software applications increasingly need the agility to adapt to rapid change and the discipline to provide dependable software-intensive products and services. Considerable perplexity currently reigns in assessing the ability of agile methods such as Extreme Programming, Scrum, Crystal, and Adaptive Software Development in providing both agility and discipline, in comparison with the use of plan-driven methods oriented around the use of frameworks such as the software Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and the CMM-Integrated (CMMI).

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  1. Director, USC Center for Software Engineering, TRW Professor of Software Engineering, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA

    Barry Boehm

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, CA 96720, Berkeley, USA

    C. V. Ramamoorthy

  2. Software Engineering and Information Technology Institute, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, 48859, Michigan, USA

    Roger Lee

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Korea

    Kyung Whan Lee

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Boehm, B. (2004). Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed. In: Ramamoorthy, C.V., Lee, R., Lee, K.W. (eds) Software Engineering Research and Applications. SERA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3026. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24675-6_1

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