FRAMEWORK AS SOFTWARE SERVICE (FASS) - An Agile e-Toolkit to Support Agile Method Tailoring

Asif Qumer, Brian Henderson-Sellers

2010

Abstract

In a real software application development environment, a pre-defined or fixed methodology, whether plan-based or agile, is unlikely to be successfully adopted “off-the-shelf”. Agile methods have recognised that a method should be tailored to each situation. The purpose of this paper is to present an agile e-toolkit software service to facilitate the tailoring of agile processes in the overall context of agile method adoption and improvement. The agile e-toolkit is a web-based tool to store and manage agile practices extracted from various agile methods and frameworks. The core component of the e-toolkit is the agile knowledge-base or repository. The agile knowledge-base contains agile process fragments. Agile consultants or teams can then use agile process fragments stored in the agile knowledge-base for the tailoring of situation-specific agile processes by using a situational method engineering approach. The e-toolkit software service has been implemented using a service-oriented cloud computing technology platform (Software as a Service – SaaS). The agile e-toolkit specifications and software application details have been summarized in this paper.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Qumer A. and Henderson-Sellers B. (2010). FRAMEWORK AS SOFTWARE SERVICE (FASS) - An Agile e-Toolkit to Support Agile Method Tailoring . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-23-2, pages 167-172. DOI: 10.5220/0003006401670172

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft10,
author={Asif Qumer and Brian Henderson-Sellers},
title={FRAMEWORK AS SOFTWARE SERVICE (FASS) - An Agile e-Toolkit to Support Agile Method Tailoring},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2010},
pages={167-172},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003006401670172},
isbn={978-989-8425-23-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - FRAMEWORK AS SOFTWARE SERVICE (FASS) - An Agile e-Toolkit to Support Agile Method Tailoring
SN - 978-989-8425-23-2
AU - Qumer A.
AU - Henderson-Sellers B.
PY - 2010
SP - 167
EP - 172
DO - 10.5220/0003006401670172