Guiding Agile Methods Customization: the AMQuICk Framework

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In today’s dynamic market environments, producing high quality software rapidly and efficiently is crucial.
In order to allow fast and reliable development processes, several agile methodologies emerged and are
now quite popular. Regarding the number of positive experience reports and success stories,
agile methods have steadily received growing attention from software practitioners.
However, their implementation is still challenging in several contexts.
Therefore, the companies willing to implement agility out of the ``sweet-spot'' context
are seeking for more systematic guidance to situationally adapt their agile practices.
Provided the aforementioned, we designed in this thesis the AMQuICk framework which is intended to be used
by experienced agile facilitators or consultants as a guide to contextualize agile methods.
The framework is composed of a customization life-cycle built upon the Quality
Improvement Paradigm (QIP).
Its core artifact consists of a metamodel for authoring agile building
blocks called AMQuICk Essence. This metamodel incorporates the necessary elements for structuring
an agile repository of practices (a kind of an experience factory), a
context model and a customization knowledge base.
Additional facilitation tools (to be used by the facilitator and the agile team) are also provided. These consist of
the AMQuICk Backlog and the AMQuICk Capitalization Workshop.
The framework has been built iteratively following the Design Science Research methodology.
Several case studies where necessary to evaluate its artifacts iteratively. 

Contact : Isabelle Daelman - 4966 - isabelle.daelman@unamur.be
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