Agile methodology in the software development: Case study: Electoral justice of Brazil

This paper presents a case study about an application of agile methodology using the framework Scrum combined with the agile software development process XP (Extreme Programming) in projects about building systems in the Brazilian Electoral Superior Court - TSE. In order to discover new knowledge relevant to the business, it was analyzed evidence collected on the implementation of the methodology and confronted with the most used bibliography about the subject. At the end of the investigation, necessary improvements were found out, and part of them confirmed facts previously known by the managers, and some brought new knowledge which presents a great potential of improvements in the organization.