s themselves. Qualitative research is generally inductive – it develops theory from the research, unlike deductive research which aims to prove (or disprove) a
hypothesis or hypotheses. Because of the scarcity of literature on the relationship between architecture and agile methods [14], an inductive strategy that develops a new hypothesis was more suitable for this research. We selected grounded theory because it allowed us to develop a high-level theory based on a broad range of participants