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Agile Software Development methods have caught the attention of software engineers and researchers worldwide, but scientific research on the subject still remains quite scarce. The aim of this study is to organize and facilitate future works on Agile methods derived from manufacturing industry. This comparative review is performed from the standpoint of using Abrahamsson et al.’s analytical perspectives: project management support, life-cycle coverage, type of practical guidance, adaptability in actual use, type of research objectives and existence of empirical evidence. Our results show that Agile methods derived from manufacturing industry cover various phases of the life-cycle and that most fail to provide adequate project management support. To describe the status of research on Agile methods derived from manufacturing, we conducted a literature search in the ISI Web of Science. After ten years of application empirical evidence remains quite limited.
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Katayama, E.T., Goldman, A. (2011). From Manufacture to Software Development: A Comparative Review. In: Sillitti, A., Hazzan, O., Bache, E., Albaladejo, X. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 77. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20677-1_7
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