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Project Management Issues While Using Agile Methodology

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Lean and Agile Software Development (LASD 2022)

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Software engineering has many software development life cycle (SDLC) models to develop a software application and the latest SDLC models have been provided by agile methods. The agile methodology has been introduced due to some existing lacks in software development. Now agile methodology is used to overcome these deficiencies and improve software development. The use of the agile methodology is increased within software industries due to its distinctive features such as enabling change requests from the client at any stage of a project, client satisfaction, iterative development, and client-developer interaction. Another reason for agile adoption is the methods that are being used for agile software development. These methods include Scrum, Feature drive development, Extreme programming, and Dynamic system development methods. However, the agile methodology has some issues for project development and management. In this study, we discuss all these issues which are related to agile methods and individuals (i.e. team and developer). Further, we suggest the possible improvements that need to be introduced in the agile methodology. We believe such improvements is to make the agile methodology more productive for development environments.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

    Shariq Aziz Butt

  2. Universidad De la Costa, CUC Barranquilla, Barranquilla, Colombia

    G. Piñeres-Espitia & Paola Ariza-Colpas

  3. Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan

    Muhammad Imran Tariq

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Aziz Butt, S., Piñeres-Espitia, G., Ariza-Colpas, P., Tariq, M.I. (2022). Project Management Issues While Using Agile Methodology. In: Przybyłek, A., Jarzębowicz, A., Luković, I., Ng, Y.Y. (eds) Lean and Agile Software Development. LASD 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 438. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94238-0_12

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