Sustaining Agile Beyond Adoption

Abstract

Agile approaches are adopted in industry to improve outcomes from software development, and are increasingly the subject of research studies. However, adoption is not the end of the story. Agile requires on-going change and commitment in order to become sustainable and embedded within teams and organisations. This study explores current perceptions of post-adoptive agility. We asked 50 practitioners 'what does agile sustainability mean to you?'. Analysis of practitioner comments identified four themes: being completely agile, independent, focused on business value and need, and consistent across time. Post-adoptive agile is an under-researched area, there is inconsistent use of terminology, and there is a gap between practitioners' and researchers' perceptions about what is important for sustaining agile.

Readiness for agile-sustainability in health-care organizations

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“…The benefits of agile operations cannot be sustained and strengthened without a determined effort from the organization; without a clear knowledge of what value entails at all levels; and without influencing minds, environment and attitudes. The environment in which agile operations are supported and maintained, as well as the larger community, is crucial (Barroca et al , 2018).…”

Issues, challenges, and a proposed theoretical core of agile software development research

“…The sustained interest in this topic is reflected in practice along with IS most notably in conference proceedings (i.e., tracks at AMCIS, ICIS and HICSS) and software engineering (SE) publication outlets. Recent studies highlight the shift in practitioner's interest from employing to sustaining ASD use (Barroca et al, 2018;Gregory et al, 2016;Senapathi & Drury-Grogan, 2020), organisation-wide transformations (Conboy & Carroll, 2019;Paasivaara et al, 2018), and overcoming issues in globally distributed environments (Calefato et al, 2019;Shrivastava & Rathod, 2017). Additionally, recent surveys indicate that ASD adoption rates continue to increase as organisations employ ASD methods to a higher percentage of their overall software projects (Version One, 2018, 2019.…”

Enterprise Agility: A Balancing Act - A Local Government Case Study

“…A continuous process of revisiting behaviours, learning lessons, and adjustment is under way in the local council and that is supportive of sustainability. But more research is needed to understand how agility and transformations can be sustained in the long term [28].…”