3. Research methodology
The objective of this research was to examine the use of agile methods within a SME software developer, and to gain an understanding of the enabling and limiting factors associated with the usage of these agile methods. The research study has been carried out between November 2007 and March 2008. The SME software developer deploys a project team of seven staff (plus one consulting customer representative) to produce software that is best characterised as web driven client service interfaces to back end database services.