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Analyzing the impact of agile practices on software projects

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pp. 1167–1178Vol. 28Issue 6September 2025DOI: 10.47974/JSMS-1482XML
Received:
05 Nov 2024
Published Online:
09 Sep 2025
Article type:
Research Article
Language:
EN
Article no.:
JSMS-1482
Pages:
1167–1178

Abstract

The effectiveness of a software project can be defined differently by different people. For writing purposes, it is introducing a software product to the market to deliver the conceived users within some pre-agreed timetable and within budget that is acceptable to the supporter of the venture. This definition of success is significantly caused by the notorious issue of development time slippage and software cost escalation of the products. These factors were particularly challenging, as deal with when software development adopted the conventional, waterfall-style forms that historically had low success rates.  As the years have gone by, software project development practices have been able to diminish these catastrophes. With agile practices, it becomes a separate ball game altogether. Agile methodologies have an underlying foundation of methods, ideas, and values. Though the single agile systems may deviate marginally, all have certain primary practices that emanate from four overarching values and twelve guiding philosophies. These values complement the purpose of software development as a whole and the single purpose, like focusing on the production of software that works rather than devoting so much time on documentation, but the ideas can be contradicting at times, like the challenge of achieving high quality with little cost.

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