Scaling agile software development to large and globally distributed large-scale organizations

Putta, Abheeshta

doi:10.1145/3196369.3196386

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“…They also e a new role (PAM) and structured the development teams so each team, led by an SDUM, supports only one product area. An area product owner's role is consistent with previous research 12 that found this role to be important for scaling agile methods. To further bind the product organization with development teams, roadmaps evolved from a static plan to a dynamic tool for maintaining a shared understanding of the development plans ahead.…”

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“…The need to take a dynamic approach to manage the product portfolio is also consistent with previous research. 12 Furthermore, LHV introduced changes that improved team autonomy by equipping them with resources required to be responsible for the full process. This was achieved in two ways: delegation of decision mandate and setting product goals.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…24 For instance, Razavi and Ahmad 11 reviewed studies to map agile software development challenges in large organizations. Putta, 12 on the other hand, reviewed studies to examine why and how large and globally distributed organizations adopt agile methods. Other studies, such as in Laanti and Kettunen, 25 focus on adopting a specific framework such as SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…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

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Milani

Kilu³

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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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“…However, we do not have much research-based evidence of these benefits. Therefore, it would be essential to identify whether the SAFe framework can mitigate the challenges of scaling agile, bring the promised benefits, and determine whether it brings in new challenges [9].…”

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Benefits and Challenges of Adopting SAFe - An Empirical Survey

Putta

Uludağ

Paasivaara

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During the last two decades, turbulent business environments tempted firms to adopt agile methods to cope with the ever-changing customer demands. The success of agile methods in small and co-located teams inspired companies to apply them to large-scale endeavors. Agile scaling frameworks, such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), have been proposed by practitioners to scale agile practices to large projects and enterprises. Companies are increasingly taking these frameworks into use. However, the number of quantitative empirical studies assessing the benefits and challenges of adopting the agile scaling frameworks is still limited. This paper starts filling in this gap by presenting the results from a survey of 100 industry participants around the world on their perception of the benefits and challenges of adopting the SAFe framework. Our results show that the SAFe adoption improves transparency, as well as collaboration and dependency management between agile teams. The most commonly mentioned challenges of the SAFe adoption are organizational politics, difficulties in establishing an agile mindset, change resistance, and team formation challenges.

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A Systematic Analysis and Synthesis of Case Study Based Agile Scaling Research in the Context of Digital Transformations

Limaj¹,

Bernroider²

2019

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Over the past decade, agile scaling concepts in organizations have gained considerable momentum and renewed attention especially from business practice. While agility has its roots in software development, the concept of agile at scale aims at more generally applying agile practices in organizations across different industries. Academic research is serving this development in different disciplines, most notably the management and information systems fields. This short paper takes stock of the last 12 years of scholarly research by developing a systematic content analysis of 26 case studies dealing with agile scaling concepts in the context of digital transformation. In the attempt to narrow the gap between research and practice, we focus on case studies as a strategic research methodology providing rich insights of complex real-life processes such as agile scaling. The findings synthesize the current state of knowledge in this regard and offer new research avenues contributing to the present agile scaling discourse.

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Scaling agile software development to large and globally distributed large-scale organizations

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 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

Benefits and Challenges of Adopting SAFe - An Empirical Survey

A Systematic Analysis and Synthesis of Case Study Based Agile Scaling Research in the Context of Digital Transformations

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