A Review on the Critical Success Factors of Agile Software Development

Aldahmash, Abdullah; Gravell, Andrew M.; Howard, Yvonne

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64218-5_41

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“…Agile methods for software development have been adopted by many organizations to improve the quality of software products. The quality in agile projects influences project success [1], [2]. SQA in agile involves quality in the software development process and quality of the product [47].…”

Section: F Software Quality Assurance On Agile Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Conceptual Framework for Auditing Agile Projects

Mkoba

Marnewick

2020

IEEE Access

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Most organizations use IT projects as vehicles to implement the IT strategy which contributes to achieving organizational strategic objectives and goals. Agile project management has been a potential solution to deliver successful IT projects instead of the traditional waterfall approach. This potential has resulted in organizations adopting agile project management to deliver IT projects on time and realise benefits. However, auditors especially those whose experience lies with more traditional and system development life cycle controls are struggling with how to audit agile projects. The problem addressed in this article is lack of an audit framework for auditing agile projects to ensure IT project success. The purpose of this article is to present the proposed conceptual framework for auditing agile projects that are implemented using Scrum methodology. The framework introduces audit processes in each process of the Scrum methodology. The quantitative research method used online survey questionnaire to validate the conceptual framework amongst IT professionals in South Africa. The data were analyzed using SPSS 26.0. The research revealed that there was a significant correlation between the identified audit processes and agile project success. This research emphasizes on the need to take into account auditing agile project from its initiation to closure. This article contributes to the body of knowledge with regard to project auditing. Auditors can use the proposed framework to audit agile projects which are implemented using Scrum methodology to ensure successful completion of IT projects.

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Section: F Software Quality Assurance On Agile Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The dimensions addressed on auditing agile project are as shown in the table 2. [2], [7], [8], [28], [32], [47], [49] 7…”

Section: Phase 2: Extensive Reading and Categorizing Of The Selected mentioning

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Conceptual Framework for Auditing Agile Projects

Mkoba

Marnewick

2020

IEEE Access

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“…Chow et al have identified agile software engineering techniques, delivery strategy and team capability as the top three critical success factors [3]. Aldahmash et al have used technical and organizational (and also people and process) as categories for critical success factors in agile software development [20].…”

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Technical and Organizational Agile Practices: A Latin-American Survey

Paéz

Fontdevila

Gainey

et al. 2018

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Background: Agile Software Development is widely used nowadays and to measure its real usage we need to analyze how its practices are used. These practices have been categorized by several authors and some practitioners have suggested that technical practices have a lower usage level than organizational practices. Objective: In this study we aim to understand the actual usage of technical and organizational agile practices in the Latin-American Agile community. Method: We conducted a three-stage survey in conferences of the Latin-American Agile Community. Results: Organizational practices are much more used than technical ones. The number of practices used is a direct function of organization experience using agile. The difference between technical and organizational practices reduces with the experience of the organization using agile. Team size and project duration seem to have no effect in the number of practices used.

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“…Before conducting the factor analysis to study the inter-relations among the success factors of agile development. We reviewed the research on the CSFs of agile software development [15]. As a result, eight success factors were selected as CSFs for agile software projects.…”

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“…As a result, eight success factors were selected as CSFs for agile software projects. The eight success factors are: Delivery strategy, Team capability and training, Agile development techniques, Customer involvement, Project management process, Organizational culture, Communication, and Top management support [15].…”

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Using Factor Analysis to Study the Critical Success Factors of Agile Software Development

Aldahmash¹,

Gravell²,

Howard³

2017

JSW

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This paper aims to study the critical success factors of agile software development projects. Following a systematic review of the literature, eight success factors were selected as critical success factors of agile software development. A web based survey was designed to collect data about agile practitioners' opinions concerning these success factors. Principal component analysis is conducted to identify the latent dimensions and how the selected success factors of agile development are related. This analysis of the eight success factors resulted in clustering them into two components. The first component labelled as Organizational and People Aspects which consist of five items which are: organizational culture, customer involvement, top management support, team capability and training, and communication. The second component labelled as Technical and Project Management Aspects which consist of three items which are: project management process, delivery strategy, and agile software techniques. The clustering of the success factors of agile projects which presented in this paper will help agile practitioners to understand how these success factors are related to each other, and may help in planning or improving agile training programmes.

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A Review on the Critical Success Factors of Agile Software Development

Cited by 23 publications

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Conceptual Framework for Auditing Agile Projects

Conceptual Framework for Auditing Agile Projects

Technical and Organizational Agile Practices: A Latin-American Survey

Using Factor Analysis to Study the Critical Success Factors of Agile Software Development

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