期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT)
印刷版ISSN：0975-4660
电子版ISSN：0975-3826
出版年度：2013
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：47
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：While organizations want to develop software products with reduced cost and flexible scope, stories aboutthe applicability of agile practices to improve project development and performance in the softwareindustry are scarce and focused on specific methodologies such as Scrum and XP. Given these facts, thispaper aims to investigate, through practitioners' perceptions of value, which agile practices are being usedto improve two performance criteria for software projects—cost and scope. Using a multivariate statisticaltechnique known as Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), the results suggest that the use of agile practicescan be represented in factors which describe different applications in software development process toimprove cost and scope. Also, we conclude that some agile practices should be used together in order to getbetter efficiency on cost and scope in four development aspects: improving (a) team abilities, (b)management of requirements, (c) quality of the code developed, and (d) delivery of software on-budget andon-time
