Exploratory Study on Sustainability in Agile Software Development
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Shola Oyedeji, Hatef Shamshiri, Mikhail O. Adisa, Jari Porras, Bilal Naqvi, Dominic LammertAuthors Info & Claims
Shola Oyedeji, Hatef Shamshiri, Mikhail O. Adisa, Jari Porras, Bilal Naqvi, Dominic LammertAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 264 - 272
Abstract
Sustainability is continuously gaining attention from different software research disciplines and organizations because of the impacts of human activities on the planet aided by software products and services. The process of creating and developing these software products and services through agile has gained significant attention with different guidelines and frameworks proposed to support sustainability. However, there is the challenge of a few concrete illustrations that exemplify how these software sustainability design guidelines and frameworks have been applied in agile practice, specifically Scrum by software development practitioners. This creates no common ground for software development practitioners to understand their role in promoting sustainability during software design and development. This paper explores integrating sustainability into agile software requirement gathering, focusing on the Scrum framework. The outcome presented in this study represents early results from an ongoing case study with an agile development team in the industry.
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ISBN:978-3-031-64575-4
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-64576-1
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