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    Master Thesis
    Adoption of an Agile Approach To E-Commerce Software Development Projects
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2015) Bilen, Metin; Aydın, Mehmet Nafiz; Aydın, Mehmet Nafiz
    Companies' business operation methods and processes have been vigorously affected by the reflection of electronic business to economy. Product-focused business model, which is executed by traditional companies, has been changed to customer-driven business model due to the speed and facility of communication among project members. The impact of end-users has been changed in a good way by the computers and mobile devices on e-commerce world. Customers have more power thanks to the increase of alternatives meeting the customer needs, pricing policy executed among competitors, competition to provide services, and ease of access to products. The power of customers has been increased by reason of being digital, and it conduced more demanding and hardly satisfied customer mass. Adopting information technologies to a business process, increasing productivity and speeding up the process has become the main purpose of e-commerce companies. The capability of parallel execution between processes implemented in software projects and e-commerce business process is a curiosity. This thesis raises the issue of how an agile software development method catches up the same tempo and the same success with the software projects business dynamics. In particular, this research aims to understand the practice of adapting an agile method to various e-commerce software development projects from a framework adopted in method engineering. The framework employs static and dynamic aspects of the fragments of a method along with artifacts and actors types. We conducted a case study in one of the leading e-commerce companies where many software development projects have been examined extensively. We found plenty of project characteristics with respect to business dynamics, project organizations, and product characteristics which have been essential to understand an extent to which the method fragments have been adapted. This research is an attempt to surface the context in which the method is adapted to the project or vice versa.