A utilização de protótipos no apoio a equipes ágeis

Abstract

Agile methodologies become increasingly important in the context of software development. In the agile development cycle, the artifacts involved are of great importance because they aim to assist the team in understanding the final product as well as facilitating communication between the development team and the design team. Among these artifacts, prototypes stand out. This work, through a triangulation between a systematic mapping of the literature and a study in the industry through semi-structured interviews, seek to analyze and understand how prototypes can help the development team and what benefits their use can bring to the development process using agile methodologies. Based on the data collected, we were able to list good practices that can be adopted by agile development teams, which are related to, for example, the alignment between written documentation and prototypes, when prototypes were created, the team's involvement in its construction and the adequacy of the different types of prototype. These practices can be adopted regarding the use of prototypes, in order to make their use more efficient for different agile development teams.