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Agile Development -A Case study
Sandhya Chandrasekhar	Department of Computing Sciences
	Villanova University
	Independent Study Project

	Advisor: Dr. Thomas Way

Description

This paper focuses on a case study of the usage of Agile in a Software Industry and in a research project work at School level. It emphasizes on Agile methodology issues used in a large organization like Siemens Medical Solutions and Villanova University, university level research project and outlines the differences between the two. Agile when applied in correct way would definitely be beneficial to the projects. At an industry level, there are many sessions and seminars taken for the members of the organization to help them understand about Agile but the same is not there at University level projects.

Keywords: Agile, Scrum, Agile development process

Schedule

Date	Description	Status
January 7, 2007	Initial Introduction	Submitted
	Second submission of Introduction and Section 2	Submitted
April, 2007	Project extended to Fall 2007	Done
August 14, 2007	First Draft of the Paper	Submitted
	Second Draft of the Paper	Completed
November 19, 2007	Final Draft of Paper

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