What Makes Agile Software Development Agile?
Özet
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 percent). 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.
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Kuhrmann, M., Tell, P., Hebig, R., Kluender, J., Muench, J., Linssen, O., Pfahl, D., Felderer, M., Prause, C. R., Macdonell, S. G., Nakatumba-Nabende, J., Raffo, D., Beecham, S., Tüzün, E., Lopez, G., Paez, N., Fontdevila, D., Licorish, S. A., Kuepper, S., … Richardson, I. (2022). What Makes Agile Software Development Agile? IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, 48(9), 3523–3539. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2021.3099532
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@article{kuhrmann2022-197796,
author = {Kuhrmann, Marco and Tell, Paolo and Hebig, Regina and Kluender, Jil and Muench, Juergen and Linssen, Oliver and Pfahl, Dietmar and Felderer, Michael and Prause, Christian R. and Macdonell, Stephen G. and Nakatumba-Nabende, Joyce and Raffo, David and Beecham, Sarah and Tüzün, Eray and Lopez, Gustavo and Paez, Nicolas and Fontdevila, Diego and Licorish, Sherlock A. and Kuepper, Steffen and Ruhe, Guenther and Knauss, Eric and Özcan Top, Özden and Clarke, Paul and Mccaffery, Fergal and Genero, Marcela and Vizcaino, Aurora and Piattini, Mario and Kalinowski, Marcos and Conte, Tayana and Prikladnicki, Rafael and Krusche, Stephan and Coşkunçay, Ahmet and Scott, Ezequiel and Calefato, Fabio and Pimonova, Svetlana and Pfeiffer, Rolf-Helge and Schultz, Ulrik Pagh and Heldal, Rogardt and Fazal-Baqaie, Masud and Anslow, Craig and Nayebi, Maleknaz and Schneider, Kurt and Sauer, Stefan and Winkler, Dietmar and Biffl, Stefan and Bastarrica, Maria Cecilia and Richardson, Ita},
title = {What Makes Agile Software Development Agile?},
journal = {IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING},
year = {2022},
volume = {48},
number = {9},
pages = {3523--3539},
issn = {0098-5589},
doi = {10.1109/tse.2021.3099532},
url = {https://akademik.atauni.edu.tr/yayinlar/197796-what-makes-agile-software-development-agile}
}