Measuring agility and adaptibility of agile methods: A 4 dimensional analytical tool
Asif Qumer Gill, Brian Henderson‐Sellers · UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney) · 2006
The software community is showing significant interest in agile software development methods and it is therefore desirable to have an analytical tool to evaluate current agile software development methods in practice.The purpose of this paper is to propose a 4-Dimensional Analytical Tool (4-DAT) for researchers and practitioners for the purpose of analysis and comparison of agile methods.4-DAT will facilitate the examination of agile methods from four perspectives or dimensions: method scope characterization, agility characterization, agile values (agile manifesto) characterization and software process characterization.The tool is intended for use by software practitioners to compare and analyse agile methods.A report that is generated with the help of 4-DAT can be used for decision making regarding the adoption of an appropriate agile method.