Towards a goal-oriented framework for partial agile adoption

Abstract

The agile paradigm is used today for software development and project as an alternative to structured and traditional heavier life cycles. Different meta-models have been proposed trying to unify agile methods. Yet, very few of them focus on agile partial method adoption. Intuitively, choosing which practices to adopt from agile methods should be made based on their most prioritized goals in the software development process. The paper answers this issue by building a goal-oriented meta-model where each agile concept is seen as a goal to achieve and explaining how goal modeling can help the software team to partially adopt agile methods. This will also make it easier to identify vulnerabilities associated with each goal and minimize risks.