Agile methods and organizational culture: reflections about cultural levels

Tolfo, Cristiano; Wazlawick, Raul Sidnei; Ferreira, Marcelo Gitirana Gomes; Forcellini, Fernando Antônio

doi:10.1002/smr.483

Cited by 63 publications

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“…Conboy et al [28] explained the role of the people in Agile migration and emphasized that without people interest, processes cannot change well. Tolfo et al [10] by describing cultural issues and human aspects of Agile migration, emphasized that commitment of people to change process is necessary for moving to Agile. Sureshchandra and Shrinivasavadhani [29] explained that unhappy people make transformation so hard.…”

Section: Getting People Buy-inmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Essential Prerequisites of Agile Transition and Adoption: a Grounded Theory Approach

Gandomani¹,

Nafchi²

2016

Journal of Internet Computing and Services

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Prevalence of Agile methods in software companies is increasing dramatically. Software companies need to employ these methods to overcome the inherent challenges of traditional methods. However, transitioning to Agile approach is a topic of debate and there is no unique and well-defined transition model or framework yet. Although some research studies have addressed barriers and strengths behind the successful Agile deployment, it seems that this process still needs to be studied more in depth. The rationale behind this is the socio-technical nature of Agile transition and adoption. Particularly, the challenges and problems that software companies are facing during Agile transition, show that this process in more difficult than expected. Conducting a large-scale research study revealed that Agile transition and adoption process needs to be supported by several critical prerequisites. This study adopted a Ground Theory with the participation of 49 Agile experts from 13 different countries and empirically identified seven transition prerequisites. These prerequisites focus on the different aspects of the transition. The main aim of this paper is proposing these prerequisites and theoretical and practical implication of these prerequisites. Providing these prerequisites before moving to Agile increases chance of success in Agile transition and adoption and leads to fewer challenges during the change process.

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Section: Getting People Buy-inmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This reveals that most often software companies start ATP without providing the required prerequisites. Since ATP comprises all practices and activities required to change the development process, the scope and type of its prerequisites vary from technical to social aspects of the transition process [10][11][12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Essential Prerequisites of Agile Transition and Adoption: a Grounded Theory Approach

Gandomani¹,

Nafchi²

2016

Journal of Internet Computing and Services

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“…Four agile development papers were related to organizational culture. One showed that specific organizational cultures correlates with effective use agile methods [56] and three of the papers the relationship were discussed, and obstacles and facilitators were identified [23,60,18]. Multi concept studies: Five studies investigated the relationship to software process improvement (SPI).…”

Section: Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a behavioral software engineering

Lenberg

Feldt

Wallgren

2014

Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

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Throughout the history of Software Engineering (SE) it has been repeatedly found that the humans involved, i.e. the engineers and developers in addition to other stakeholders, are a key factor in determining project outcomes and success. However, the amount of research that focuses on human aspects has been limited compared to research with technology or process focus. With increasing maturity of the field, interest in agile methods and a growing dissatisfaction with the continued challenges of developing high-quality software on time, the amount of SE research putting human aspect in primary focus has increased.In this paper we argue that a synthesized view of the emerging human-focused SE research is needed and can add value through giving focus, direction and help identify gaps. Taking cues from the addition of Behavioral Economics as an important part of the area of Economics we propose the term Behavioral Software Engineering (BSE) as an umbrella concept for research that focus on behavioral and social aspects in the work activities of software engineers. We propose that a model based on three units of analysis can give structure and point to concepts that are important for BSE. To add detail to this model we are conducting a systematic review to map out what is currently known. To exemplify the model and the area we here present the results from a subset of the identified concepts.

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“…Among them, it seemed that cultural problems are more critical than the others since they were addressed by almost all of the participants. In several studies people and organizational culture are discussed [5,9,14]. Cockburn et al, by describing role of the people in moving to Agile methods mentioned that people's culture strongly influences transformation process [3].…”

Section: Impediments To Changementioning

confidence: 99%