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What Is Agile Software Development: A Short Introduction

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  • We explain the central concepts of agile development as they are used in Scrum.

  • We show the high-level, generic Scrum process diagram.

  • We introduce some relevant agile concepts.

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  1. Software Engineering, Safety and Security, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway

    Geir Kjetil Hanssen & Thor Myklebust

  2. NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

    Tor Stålhane

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Hanssen, G.K., Stålhane, T., Myklebust, T. (2018). What Is Agile Software Development: A Short Introduction. In: SafeScrum® – Agile Development of Safety-Critical Software . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99334-8_2

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