A study of value in agile software development organizations
Journal article, 2017

The Agile manifesto focuses on the delivery of valuable software. In Lean, the principles emphasise value, where every activity that does not add value is seen as waste. Despite the strong focus on value, and that the primary critical success factor for software intensive product development lies in the value domain, no empirical study has investigated specifically what value is. This paper presents an empirical study that investigates how value is interpreted and prioritised, and how value is assured and measured. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 23 participants from 14 agile software development organisations. The contribution of this study is fourfold. First, it examines how value is perceived amongst agile software development organisations. Second, it compares the perceptions and priorities of the perceived values by domains and roles. Third, it includes an examination of what practices are used to achieve value in industry, and what hinders the achievement of value. Fourth, it characterises what measurements are used to assure, and evaluate value-creation activities. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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JUN 22-

Agile software development

Computer Science

Empirical

decisions

2006

PT IV3rd International Conference on Design

p549

APR 19-21

ACTICE

Turtle

and Usability (DUXU)

quality

Value

requirements

actice

User Experience

model

driven

Author

Hiva Alahyari

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

Richard Berntsson Svensson

University of Gothenburg

Tony Gorschek

Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, BTH

Journal of Systems and Software

0164-1212 (ISSN)

Vol. 125 271-288

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

Computer Science

DOI

10.1016/j.jss.2016.12.007

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