What Makes Agile Software Development Agile
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022
Together with many success stories, promises such as the increase in production speed and the improvement in stakeholders' collaboration have contributed to making agile a transformation in the software industry in which many companies want to take part. However, driven either by a natural and expected evolution or by contextual factors that challenge the adoption of agile methods as prescribed by their creator(s), software processes in practice mutate into hybrids over time. Are these still agile In this article, we investigate the question: what makes a software development method agile We present an empirical study grounded in a large-scale international survey that aims to identify software development methods and practices that improve or tame agility. Based on 556 data points, we analyze the perceived degree of agility in the implementation of standard project disciplines and its relation to used development methods and practices. Our findings suggest that only a small number of participants operate their projects in a purely traditional or agile manner (under 15%). That said, most project disciplines and most practices show a clear trend towards increasing degrees of agility. Compared to the methods used to develop software, the selection of practices has a stronger effect on the degree of agility of a given discipline. Finally, there are no methods or practices that explicitly guarantee or prevent agility. We conclude that agility cannot be defined solely at the process level. Additional factors need to be taken into account when trying to implement or improve agility in a software company. Finally, we discuss the field of software process-related research in the light of our findings and present a roadmap for future research.
Companies
Data collection
Collaboration
Instruments
Survey Research
Hybrid Development Methods
Standards
Agile Software Development
Market research
Software Development
Software
Software Process
Författare
Marco Kuhrmann
Universität Passau
Paolo Tell
IT-Universitetet i Kobenhavn
Regina Hebig
Göteborgs universitet
Jil Klünder
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Jürgen Münch
Hochschule Reutlingen
Oliver Linssen
FOM University of Applied Sciences
Dietmar Pfahl
Tartu Ülikool
Michael Felderer
University of Innsbruck
Christian R. Prause
Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Steve Macdonell
Auckland University of Technology
Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende
Makerere University
David Raffo
Portland State University
Sarah Beecham
University of Limerick
Eray Tuzun
Bilkent Universitesi
Gustavo Lopez
Universidad de Costa Rica
Nicolas Paez
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
Diego Fontdevila
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
S. A. Licorish
University of Otago
Steffen Küpper
Technischen Universität Clausthal
Guenther Ruhe
University of Calgary
Eric Knauss
Göteborgs universitet
Ozden Ozcan Top
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi
Paul Clarke
Dublin City University
Fergal Hugh Mc Caffery
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Marcela Genero
Universidad de Castilla, La Mancha
Aurora Vizcaino
Universidad de Castilla, La Mancha
Mario Piattini
Universidad de Castilla, La Mancha
Marcos Kalinowski
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro
Tayana Conte
Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Rafael Prikladnicki
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul
Stephan Krusche
Technische Universität München
Ahmet Coskuncay
Atatürk Üniversitesi
Ezequiel Scott
Tartu Ülikool
Fabio Calefato
Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Svetlana Pimonova
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Rolf Helge Pfeiffer
IT-Universitetet i Kobenhavn
Ulrik Pagh Schultz
Syddansk Universitet
Rogardt Heldal
Høgskulen på Vestlandet (HVL)
Masud Fazal-Baqaie
IEM
Craig Anslow
Victoria University of Wellington
Maleknaz Nayebi
École Polytechnique de Montréal
Kurt Schneider
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Stefan Sauer
Universität Paderborn
Dietmar Winkler
Technische Universität Wien
S. Biffl
Technische Universität Wien
Cecilia Bastarrica
Universidad de Chile (UCH)
Ita Richardson
Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
0098-5589 (ISSN) 19393520 (eISSN)
Vol. 48 9 3523-3539Ämneskategorier
Mänsklig interaktion med IKT
Programvaruteknik
Systemvetenskap
DOI
10.1109/TSE.2021.3099532