Progress of agile movements in Australia: Propose a Universal Dynamic System Development Method (UDSDM) and universal framework

Agile software development methods have emerged to Australian organizations in recent years. This paper is a survey of agile method employments found in information technology industries, educational courses and research programs. The survey aims to collect, compare, analyze and determine the movement of agile methods in several countries and focuses on Australia. The analysis of each collected agile method is based on three main factors. The first factor is the agile values of a method, which are related with the agile manifesto. The next two analyses compare the agile methods on their management practice values and engineering practice values. The results indicate that agile software development methods only support certain phases of the software development life cycle. Also, most agile methods in this survey do not provide sufficient support for project management. At the end, Universal Dynamic System Development Method (UDSDM) and universal agile software development framework have proposed based on the analyses done in this survey.