Engenharia de Software e Métodos Ágeis como forma de Inclusão

Abstract

Agile Methodologies have brought newi nsightint o how to develop software by focusing on individuals and relationships, on people and not on the software developed. Agile Methods also value the list of teams that have diversity, but only professional diver-sity is considered, where teams with professionals with different skills and knowledge facilitate self-sufficiency and consequently self-performance. However, the concept of diversity goes beyond this perspective, it is necessary to think about social diversity,think about inclusion and more than just include, integrate people into the team, inte-grate them into the organization. The human aspects of software engineering, studiedover 40 years ago, relate how individuals can develop their behavioral skills with in the context of software building environments. Such aspects can be enhanced through ag-ile practices, however, such practices do not actually have the perspective of inclusion,especially when talking about people with disabilities, so it is up to the team to create their own adaptations when this need exists.In this context,the objective of this paper isto identify the main techniques present in the literature, confront them with the reality of specialists who work ormanage agilete ams,being those with disabilities or people who worked coordinating teams with people with disabilities, and understand the challengesthey face during the developed projects. Based on a literature review and the opinionof agile practitioners through interviews, a series of techniques and strategies havebeen raised to help promote inclusion in agile teams. These include the Daily Meeting,Pair Programming, Planning Meeting, Review Meeting, Retrospective, Effort Estimat-ing, Workshop, and Code Challenges. Despite the use of these techniques, reliance onexternal factors such as specific tools or knowledge of sign language and inattention to make the environment conducive for professionals to feel confident and empoweredare the main challenges faced by agile teams with people with disabilities. Finally, acatalog is also proposed to support inclusion initiatives in agile teams, containing themain techniques mentioned in the literature and by agile professionals.