Obstacles in Moving to Agile Software Development Methods; At a Glance

Gandomani, Taghi Javdani; Zulzalil, Hazura; Ghani, Abdul; Sultan, Abu Bakar; Nafchi, Mina Ziaei

doi:10.3844/jcssp.2013.620.625

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“…Also, van Waardenburg and van Vliet [21] identify 'lack of business involvement' as one of their two categories of challenges (the other being 'increased landscape complexity') which maps to our subtheme Management buy-in and understanding. Gandomani et al [20] BigBank's third challenge ('How to overcome Head Office management perception of re-prioritisation and de-scoping as lack of control') also refers to the need for business transformation.…”

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The challenges that challenge: Engaging with agile practitioners’ concerns

Gregory

Barroca

Sharp

et al. 2016

Information and Software Technology

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Context: There continues to be concern that research is not addressing the challenges that practice faces. For the benefit of academia and industry, researchers need to be aware of practitioners' challenges and their context so that relevant and applicable research is undertaken.Objective: This paper investigates two research questions: what challenges do agile practitioners face?and, how do practitioner challenges manifest themselves in an organisational setting? It aims to map the practitioner challenge landscape, explore challenge characteristics, compare findings with previous literature and identify implications for research that is relevant to practice.Method: A combination of methods was used: elicitation of practitioner challenges collected using a Challenge Wall at a series of practitioner events; organisational Case Study using interviews, document analysis and observation; and online Survey. Findings were then compared to previous publications. Results:Challenges collected from the Challenge Wall were grouped under 27 subthemes and seven themes: Claims and Limitations, Organisation, Sustainability, Culture, Teams, Scale, and Value.Investigating one challenge in the Case Study uncovered a set of new challenges, which were interrelated. Over 50% of survey respondents experienced challenges highlighted in the Case Study. Conclusion:The landscape of agile practitioner challenges is complex and intertwined. Some challenges, such as doing agile in a non-agile environment, are multi-dimensional, affect many aspects of practice, and may be experienced simultaneously as business, organisational, social and adaptation problems. Some challenges, such as understanding cultural change or measuring agile value, persist and are hard to address, while others, such as adoption, change focus over time. Some challenges, such as governance and contracts, are under-researched, while others, such as business and IT transformation, have been researched but findings have not had the expected impact. Researchers wishing to address practitioner challenges need to treat them in context rather than in isolation and improve knowledge transfer.

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Section: Which Challenges Are Being Addressed By Research?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several attempts have been made to categorise challenges faced in the application of agile. Gandomani et al [20] identified four categories of challenges faced by organisations when migrating to agile: organisation and management; people; process; and tools related challenges. This classification is based solely on existing literature.…”

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The challenges that challenge: Engaging with agile practitioners’ concerns

Gregory

Barroca

Sharp

et al. 2016

Information and Software Technology

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“…Gandomani et al [24] categorise the challenges faced by organisations when migrating to agile into four main categories: organisation and management; people; process; and tools related challenges. This classification is based solely on existing literature.…”

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Agile Challenges in Practice: A Thematic Analysis

Gregory

Barroca

Taylor

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Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. As agile is maturing and becoming more widely adopted, it is important that researchers are aware of the challenges faced by practitioners and organisations. We undertook a thematic analysis of 193 agile challenges collected at a series of agile conferences and events during 2013 and 2014. Participants were mainly practitioners and business representatives along with some academics. The challenges were thematically analysed by separate authors, synthesised, and a list of seven themes and 27 sub-themes was agreed. Themes were Organisation, Sustainability, Culture, Teams, Scale, Value and Claims and Limitations. We compare our findings against previous attempts to identify and categorise agile challenges. While most themes have persisted we found a shift of focus towards sustainability, business engagement and transformation, as well as claims and limitations. We identify areas for further research and a need for innovative methods of conveying academic research to industry and industrial problems to academia.

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“…According to Sanjiv Augustine, Agile methodology is "a way of managing projects to deliver customer value via adaptive planning, rapid feedback, continuous improvement and intense human interaction and collaboration" [1]. It is typically used for small and medium projects for frequently changing domains, or when client doesn't have a clearly goal, or when the rapidly finalization of the project is more important than the quality requirements [11]. An Agile project is based on a product backlog, consisting of several iterations, called sprints.…”

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confidence: 99%