Browsing by Author "Nilsson, Agneta"

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    Adding Value Every Sprint: A Case Study on Large-Scale Continuous Requirements Engineering
    (WS on Continuous Requirements Engineering, 2017) Kasauli, Rashidah; Knauss, Eric; Nilsson, Agneta; Klug, Sara
    Agile development practices, such as continuous integration and continuous delivery, promise value through shorter time to market and increased exibility. While these practices have been widely adopted in small-scale, they have shown to be challenging to adopt in large-scale, system development. This is often due to a distance between customer and developer in large scale systems, and the need to break down value from the whole system into manageable parts. The notion of value is fundamental for agile methods, especially for practices such as continuous delivery to the customer. However, how value should be handled in development practices is not clearly understood. In this paper, we investigate how the notion of adding value in every sprint has been perceived in a large-scale system development. Based on an exploratory qualitative case study, the outcome shows that it is perceived bene cial by practitioners although it comes at a price and challenges exist.
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    Safety-Critical Systems and Agile Development: A Mapping Study
    (IEEE, 2018) Kasauli, Rashidah; Knauss, Eric; Kanagwa, Benjamin; Nilsson, Agneta; Calikli, Gul
    In the last decades, agile methods had a huge impact on how software is developed. In many cases, this has led to significant benefits, such as quality and speed of software deliveries to customers. However, safety-critical systems have widely been dismissed from benefiting from agile methods. Products that include safety critical aspects are therefore faced with a situation in which the development of safety-critical parts can significantly limit the potential speed-up through agile methods, for the full product, but also in the non-safety critical parts. For such products, the ability to develop safety-critical software in an agile way will generate a competitive advantage. In order to enable future research in this important area, we present in this paper a mapping of the current state of practice based on a mixed method approach. Starting from a workshop with experts from six large Swedish product development companies we develop a lens for our analysis. We then present a systematic mapping study on safety-critical systems and agile development through this lens in order to map potential benefits, challenges, and solution candidates for guiding future research.