Introduction to the Organizations, Products and Development Minitrack

Agile and lean management practices (which we define broadly to include Scrum, XP, Lean Startup and other related approaches) roughly triple the success rate of software projects over traditional management approaches [1]. Despite these results, the software industry continues to start new projects using traditional approaches. Because software projects contribute so broadly to the human condition, research on agile methods may produce significant productivity gains. The impact extends beyond software, agile manufacturing [2] and agile organizational strategy [3] share many fundamentals with agile software.