Agile Product Inception: Framework Analysis and Support

In this dissertation, after testing that neither the definition of Agile methodologies, nor the current tools that support them, such as Scrum or XP, gave guidance for stages of software development prior to the definition of the first interaction of development; we proceeded to study the state of the art of Inception techniques, that is, techniques to deal with this early phase of the project, that would help guide its development. From the analysis of these Inception techniques, we defined what we considered as the essential properties of an Inception framework. With that list at hand, it was found that no current Inception framework supported all the features, also, we found that it did not exist, either, any software application on the market that did it. Finally, after checking the above gaps, we defined the Inception framework "Agile Incepti-ON", with all the practices necessary to meet the requirements specified above. In addition to this, a software application was developed to support the practices defined in the Inception framework, called "Agile Dojo".