This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th Brazilian Workshop on Agile Methods
WBMA 2018 held in Campinas Brazil in October 2018. The 6 full and 1 short papers presented
in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. Accepted papers in
this edition present empirical results and literature reviews on agile requirements validation
in Brazilian software development companies a survey on Brazilian software processes about to
be agile or not an evaluation of an agile maturity model strategies to increase customer
value in agile software development an agile development environment and scrum in a strongly
hierarchical organization.
