Perceptive Agile Measurement: New Instruments for Quantitative Studies in the Pursuit of the Social-Psychological Effect of Agile Practices

So, Chaehan; Schöll, Wolfgang

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_11

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“…Since agile methods are more about people and culture we suggest social psychological measurements are more appropriate if organizations want to measure their level of agility. The only study we found on social psychology and agile development processes is the article Perceptive Agile Measurement: New Instruments for Quantitative Studies in the Pursuit of the Social-Psychological Effect of Agile Practices by So & Scholl (2009). Their work deserves more attention since they created a tool and validated it on a sample of N = 227.…”

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The prospects of a quantitative measurement of agility: A validation study on an agile maturity model

Gren

Torkar

Feldt

2015

Journal of Systems and Software

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Agile Development has now become a well-known approach to collaboration in professional work life. Both researchers and practitioners want validated tools to measure agility. This study sets out to validate an agile maturity measurement model with statistical tests and empirical data. First, a pretest was conducted as a case study including a survey and focus group. Second, the main study was conducted with 45 employees from two SAP customers in the US. We used internal consistency (by a Cronbach's alpha) as the main measure for reliability and analyzed construct validity by exploratory principal factor analysis (PFA). The results suggest a new categorization of a subset of items existing in the tool and provides empirical support for these new groups of factors. However, we argue that more work is needed to reach the point where a maturity models with quantitative data can be said to validly measure agility, and even then, such a measurement still needs to include some deeper analysis with cultural and contextual items.

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The prospects of a quantitative measurement of agility: A validation study on an agile maturity model

Gren

Torkar

Feldt

2015

Journal of Systems and Software

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“…It would also be interesting to investigate if there is a correlation between the concrete agile practices and the group's maturity. We suggest that if such a study is to be conducted, or equivalent, the tool created by So & Scholl (2009) would be useful since it is validated on a larger sample (N = 227) and include such concrete agile practices as a set of survey items. It would also be fascinating to analyze the verbal communication connected to group development in agile teams and compare them to non-agile ones by using Sequential Analysis of Verbal Interaction (S.A.V.I.)…”

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Group development and group maturity when building agile teams: A qualitative and quantitative investigation at eight large companies

Gren

Torkar

Feldt

2017

Journal of Systems and Software

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The agile approach to projects focuses more on close-knit teams than traditional waterfall projects, which means that aspects of group maturity become even more important. This psychological aspect is not much researched in connection to the building of an "agile team." The purpose of this study is to investigate how building agile teams is connected to a group development model taken from social psychology. We conducted ten semi-structured interviews with coaches, Scrum Masters, and managers responsible for the agile process from seven different companies, and collected survey data from 66 group-members from four companies (a total of eight different companies). The survey included an agile measurement tool and the one part of the Group Development Questionnaire. The results show that the practitioners define group developmental aspects as key factors to a successful agile transition. Also, the quantitative measurement of agility was significantly correlated to the group maturity measurement. We conclude that adding these psychological aspects to the description of the "agile team" could increase the understanding of agility and partly help define an "agile team." We propose that future work should develop specific guidelines for how software development teams at different maturity levels might adopt agile principles and practices differently.

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“…Factor analysis was used in a study conducted by So and Scholl (So et al 2009). The paper presented a measurement instrument to study the social-psychological effect of eight agile practices.…”

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Using Factor Analysis to Generate Clusters of Agile Practices (A Guide for Agile Process Improvement)

Abbas

Gravell

Wills

2010

2010 Agile Conference

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In this paper, factor analysis is applied on a set of data that was collected to study the effectiveness of 58 different agile practices. The analysis extracted 15 factors; each was associated with a list of practices. These factors with the associated practices can be used as a guide for agile process improvement. Correlations between the extracted factors were calculated, and the significant correlation findings suggested that people who applied iterative and incremental development and quality assurance practices had a high success rate, that communication with the customer was not very popular as it had negative correlations with governance and iterative and incremental development. Also, people who applied governance practices also applied quality assurance practices. Interestingly success rate related negatively with traditional analysis methods such as Gantt chart and detailed requirements specification.

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Perceptive Agile Measurement: New Instruments for Quantitative Studies in the Pursuit of the Social-Psychological Effect of Agile Practices

Cited by 33 publications

References 8 publications

The prospects of a quantitative measurement of agility: A validation study on an agile maturity model

The prospects of a quantitative measurement of agility: A validation study on an agile maturity model

Group development and group maturity when building agile teams: A qualitative and quantitative investigation at eight large companies

Using Factor Analysis to Generate Clusters of Agile Practices (A Guide for Agile Process Improvement)

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