Perceived control and the diffusion of software process innovations

The relationship between organizational culture and the deployment of agile methods

“…Nonetheless, given the opportunity to observe and practice them, people adopt them with great success.'' (p. 34) Cultural members always socially construct the meanings and purposes of their activities. Enculturation thus refers to gaining an implicit sense of those meanings and purposes [11].…”

An approach for concurrent evaluation of technical and social aspects of software development methodologies

“…Example, it is difficult to introduce a rigorous SDM into an organization that has a liberal culture; an non-innovative development team will probably reject an innovative SDM, etc. [15][16][17][18]. The consequence of using a SDM that is either technically unsuitable for a project at hand, or socially inappropriate for a given development team is that even though an organisation might have invested a considerable amount of resources into the SDM, developers consider it useless and therefore reject it.…”

Organizational Culture and the Deployment of Agile Methods: The Competing Values Model View

“…Although there is no prior research on the relationship between mandatoriness and SDM deployment, the negative association between voluntariness and the acceptance of SDMs and related software process innovations (Iivari 1996;Riemenschneider et al 2002;Green et al 2004) partially support H41, which claims that this is especially so in organizations with a strong hierarchical culture. Hypothesis H42 assumes that the developmental culture orientation has a negative effect on the degree to which "mandatoriness" of method use influences actual method use.…”