Agile development in large and distributed environments: A systematic literature review on organizational, managerial and cultural aspects

Razavi, Abbas Moshref; Ahmad, Rodina

doi:10.1109/mysec.2014.6986017

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“…It should, however, be noted that studies confirm the need for micro-service architecture for team autonomy 29 and for addressing challenges with maintaining and evolving legacy systems. 11 In summary, when improving agile development processes at LHV, the scope was not confined to the development teams. While improvements to agile methods within the development teams can deliver efficiency gains, taking a coherent approach delivers more value.…”

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“…8 In response to this challenge, companies have examined improving their software processes 9,10 and, more specifically, agile software processes. 11,12 In this regard, critical success factors for agile methodologies have been studied from different perspectives related to adopting agile values 13,14 and executing agile projects. 6,15 Financial institutions have also examined adoption of agile development methods to better compete with FinTech companies, 8 such as a Scandinavian bank, 16 a large bank in the USA, 5 a Dutch bank, 17,18 and an Australian financial institution.…”

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Enhancing agile software development in the banking sector—A comprehensive case study at LHV

Scott

Milani

Kilu³

et al. 2021

J Software Evolu Process

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FinTech companies are challenging established financial institutions' dominance by offering the same products with a superior customer experience and delivering new features faster. The adoption of agile software development partially enables this competitive advantage. In response to this challenge, banks explore how they can improve their agile processes. LHV, a mid-sized bank, uses agile practices but faces the challenge of further improvement to stay competitive with FinTech companies.In this article, we explore how LHV can improve its agile software development process. We conduct a case study at LHV where we first derive eight change proposals based on a literature review and interviews. Then, we report on how LHV implemented the change proposals and their perceived impact. Our results stress the importance of taking a coherent approach to improving agile processes by considering both business units and operations involved in the product life-cycle. It is also necessary to align organizational structures to enable team autonomy by, for instance, decentralizing decision authority. Finally, it is beneficial to adapt agile practices to their context and have an IT architecture and technology supporting the agile approach.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing agile software development in the banking sector—A comprehensive case study at LHV

Scott

Milani

Kilu³

et al. 2021

J Software Evolu Process

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“…These solutions inevitably require specific work practices and culture. The understanding based on a previous study [31] implies there are some major challenges with even using such replacement practices, among which and considering the current topic, the most frequent one is trust. Hence, this study is also intended to help understand how these cultural issues may interrupt the normal pace of work in offshore environments.…”

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“…This paper mostly relies on work experience reports to show how cultural issues have been surfacing and, what challenges practitioners face. Thus, IEEE publishing is considered suitable for this purpose because it contains the most extensive amount of work experience reports (identified by the first author through a past study [31]), mostly in the form of conference papers. As further justification for selecting IEEE, a pilot search of five other databases performed from February 2003 to March 2014 was performed.…”

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Cultural Issues in Offshore Teams: A Categorization based on Existing Studies

2019

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Cultural and personal issues resulting from dispersed teams are considered to be serious barriers to form trust and organize effective agile teams. However, apart from separate, reported evidence of such issues from work experience, there has been no theoretical classification in literature. This paper provides a list and analysis of common challenges mainly resulting from cultural differences and barriers in Agile Software Development (ASD) offshore teams. The data source comprise articles published in IEEE, mostly of conferences related to ASD. Among the articles, papers with concrete evidence of Agile Methods (AM) implementation were selected. The results show that despite the relative significance of such issues, ASD adopters typically still rely on their own experience, and creativity rather than using well-defined methods. Moreover, this study reveals that the notion of trust, as discussed in the literature, mainly refers to maintaining the pace of communication, which is the focal point in ASD.

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“…Co-location enables face-to-face collaboration between team members which facilitates rapid releases of working software. This results in benefits such as delivering value to the business more frequently than traditional software development methods, enabling more timely changes to the software being developed and improving rates of fixing software defects [5,6].…”

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Challenges in Distributed Agile Software Development Environment: A Systematic Literature Review

2019

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Due to increasing interest in distributed agile software development, there is a need to systematically review the literature on challenges encountered in the agile software development environment. Using the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach, 32 relevant publications, dated between 2013 and 2018 were selected from four electronic databases. Data from these publications were extracted to identify the key challenges across the system development life cycle (SDLC) phases, which essentially are short phases in each agile-based iteration. 5 types of key challenges were identified as impacting the SDLC phases; these challenges are Communication, Coordination, Cooperation, Collaboration and Control. In the context of the SLDC phases, the Communication challenge was discussed the most often (79 times, 33%). The least discussed challenges were Cooperation and Collaboration (26 times, 11% each). The 5 challenges occur because of distances which occur in distributed environment. This SLR identified 4 types of distances which contribute to the occurrence of these key challenges -physical, temporal, social-cultural and knowledge/experience. Of the 32 publications, only 4 included research which proposed new solutions to address challenges in agile distributed software development. The authors of this article believe that the findings in this SLR are a resource for future research work to deepen the understanding of and to develop additional solutions to address the challenges in distributed agile software development.

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Agile development in large and distributed environments: A systematic literature review on organizational, managerial and cultural aspects

Cited by 16 publications

References 53 publications

Enhancing agile software development in the banking sector—A comprehensive case study at LHV

Enhancing agile software development in the banking sector—A comprehensive case study at LHV

Cultural Issues in Offshore Teams: A Categorization based on Existing Studies

Challenges in Distributed Agile Software Development Environment: A Systematic Literature Review

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