Successful Practices in Industry-Academy Collaboration in the Context of Software Agility: A Systematic Literature Review

Research and development (R&D) are the main factors for inserting new technologies and knowledge in the industry, starting from research developments established through collaborations between industry and academia (IAC) within software development organizations. These collaborative practices between these environments enhance the exchange of knowledge and experiences, favoring both communities involved. One of the main processes applied within software development is agile methodologies that present low effort and reduced failure rates in software development. The purpose of this article is to present an exploratory and empirical study of IAC practices in the context of Agile Software Development (ASD), exploring and characterizing solutions and practices, the challenges encountered in the application of IAC, and collaboration. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and a Snowballing were conducted in five databases, evaluating/analyzing 8460 articles following the defined criteria. As a result, ten categories of challenges and fourteen categories of good practices for application in collaborative projects were described, in addition to describing seven collaboration models.