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Nowadays, small and medium enterprises are using agile methodologies as an effort to produce software to meet the time requested by the market. However, the lack of knowledge on how to use them adequately results in their empirical adoption with an inefficient software development. In this context, a set of software tools that pretend to help SMEs in the implementation of an agile methodology have been developed. Unfortunately, most of them list a set of questions without providing the expected support. This paper aims to analyze a set of the most used software tools found in the literature in order to identify which elements are covered and focused by the software tools. Besides, this analysis allowed us to identify deficiencies in the actual tools and a set of key elements that should be taken into account to help SMEs in the correct implementation and the achievement of maturity on the use of an agile methodology.
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Muñoz, M., Mejia, J., Corona, B., Calvo-Manzano, J.A., San Feliu, T., Miramontes, J. (2016). Analysis of Tools for Assessing the Implementation and Use of Agile Methodologies in SMEs. In: Clarke, P., O'Connor, R., Rout, T., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 609. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38980-6_10
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