Agile Software Development (PDF)

Torgeir Dingsøyr works with software process improvement and knowledge management projects as a senior scientist at SINTEF Information and Communication Technology, Trondheim, Norway. At the same time, he holds a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at NUST, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is a co-author of the book "Process Improvement in Practice - A Handbook for IT Companies". His current research interests include software process improvement, agile software development, and knowledge management in software engineering. Tore Dybå is chief scientist and research manager at SINTEF Communication and Information Technology. He had worked as a consultant for eight years in Norway and Saudi Arabia before he joined SINTEF in 1994. His research interests include empirical and evidence-based software engineering, software process improvement, and organizational learning and he is the principal author of the book "Process Improvement in Practice: A Handbook for IT Companies. Nils Brede Moe is a research scientist at SINTEF Information and Communication. He has 11 years of experience working as a project manager and researcher within software development and is a co-author of the book "Process Improvement in Practice-A Handbook for IT Companies". His current research interests include global software development, process improvement, self-management, and agile software development.

"Your one-stop resource to agile software development." - from the Foreword by Hakan Erdogmus, Kalemun Research Inc., Ottawa, Canada

"[...] This broad survey of these [agile]methods discusses their most relevant aspects, advantages, and disadvantages. [...] Each self-contained paper includes its own references, yet all of them share a quasi-entomological look at the agile software development field, dissecting its merits and pitfalls. [...]" ACM Copmuting Review, Andrea Paramithiotti, January 2011