A Conceptual Model for Agile Practices Adoption

The software development industry has been adopting agile methods and practices instead of traditional software development methods because they are more flexible and can bring benefits such as handling requirements changes, productivity gains, frequent releases and business strategy focus. This work proposes a model for agile process data representation to show the relationships between agile components (principles, methods, practices, techniques, roles and work products) to allow organizations to define the strategy of agile practices adoption to achieve their business goals. Through competency questions the model has been validated using Scrum method data as the initial dataset. Future work includes the addition of more agile methods to the model repository and the validation of organization tailored methods using the model.