Agile Methodologies have been known to allow to “embrace change”, welcoming and not hindering changes to requirements. Still, we need more evidence about the exact benefits of the adoption of agile methodologies in an industrial context.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze Change Requests (CR) within a software company evaluating them with respect to several indicators from the viewpoint of business analyst and customers. The context of the analysis is a company that has recently migrated to agile development practices, allowing a comparison with the previous development practices.

The theoretical part of the thesis will deal with the identification of the state of the art with respect to change management in agile development and the definition of the relevant indicators and hypotheses for the analytical part.

The practical part will deal with the data collection to answer the questions, by mining the repositories within the company and getting the feedback from developers to answer the research questions. The expected result is an exploratory model that can evaluate the way in which agility impacts on the development process.