Process Mining (PM) and PM tool abilities play a significant role in meeting the needs of organizations in terms of getting benefits from their processes and event data, especially in this digital era. The success of PM initiatives in producing effective and efficient outputs and outcomes that organizations desire is largely dependent on the capabilities of the PM tools. This importance of the tools makes the selection of them for a specific context critical. In the selection process of appropriate tools, a comparison of them can lead organizations to an effective result. In order to meet this need and to give insight to both practitioners and researchers, in our study, we systematically reviewed the literature and elicited the papers that compare PM tools, yielding comprehensive results through a comparison of available PM tools. It specifically delivers tools’ comparison frequency, methods and criteria used to compare them, strengths and weaknesses of the compared tools for the selection of appropriate PM tools, and findings related to the identified papers' trends and demographics. Although some articles conduct a comparison for the PM tools, there is a lack of literature reviews on the studies that compare PM tools in the market. As far as we know, this paper presents the first example of a review in literature in this regard.

Software development agility has been regarded as a critical pillar of modern businesses. However, there is still a way to find whether there exists a consistent, complete, precise, agreed and uniformed definition of it. In this regard, this study firstly reviews the existing definitions of agility in the software development domain from the literature. As one of the main results of this phase, we have seen that although agility has a remarkable root in the software development domain, even its definition is still debatable and there are other concepts close to agility in terms of definition but used interchangeably. There is another confusion about how some researchers define agility over other different concepts, although there is no apparent unifying factor in their origins except their historical co-occurrence. In addition, there are particular practices embedded into the agility definitions mostly from the manifesto and Scrum. After uncovering the deficiencies of the existing definitions, we aimed to ratify the definition of the agility concept. Then, we intended to synthesize the underlying facets of the identified definitions and propose a new yet more comprehensive definition revealing the agility characteristics properly by considering the interpretations of the existing definitions. Our study stands out by using a customized synthesis method for analysis, providing inputs to this analysis with a comprehensive literature review, and the comprehensive evaluation of the facets with the support of the literature. We are aware that agreeing on a definition is a valuable exercise and a good starting point for a better understanding of the agility phenomenon that could enable and lead to more realistic implementations, less disappointment and disillusionment, and possibly greater success rates for both practitioners and researchers.