Application of Methodologies and Process Models in Big Data Projects

The concept of Big Data is being used in different business sectors; however, it is not certain which methodologies and process models have been used for the development of these kind of projects. This paper presents a systematic literature review of studies reported between 2012 and 2017 related to agile and non-agile methodologies applied in Big Data projects. For validating our review process, a text mining method was used. The results reveal that since 2016 the number of articles that integrate the agile manifesto in Big Data project has increased, being Scrum the agile framework most commonly applied. We also found that 44% of articles obtained from a manual systematic literature review were automatically identified by applying text mining.