Proposition of an approach based on BPM to manage agile development processes

Abstract

Software development processes have known important evolutions such as the appearance of the agile methods. They become now the centre of interest of all development teams. Furthermore, BPM is an approach for modelling and automating business processes, favouring their continuous improvement. This paper proposes a new approach for conducting agile software development projects, based on BPM in order to have a comprehensible modelling of the corresponding processes, automating them, facilitating their management and favouring the collaboration between the involved actors. The case of the agile Scrum method is taken in order to model the corresponding development process and implement an executable prototype for Scrum teams.