Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study

Nugroho, Ariadi; Chaudron, Mrv Michel

doi:10.1109/esem.2007.12

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“…Empirical research suggests that agile methods do indeed improve job satisfaction, productivity and customer satisfaction (Dyba and Dingsoyr, 2009), with other research reporting improved communication between team members, quick releases and the increased flexibility of agile designs (Begel and Nagappan, 2007). Critical success factors for agile projects have been identified as: correct delivery strategy, proper practice of agile methods and high calibre team members (Chow and Cao, 2008).…”

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How product owner teams scale agile methods to large distributed enterprises

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2014

Empir Software Eng

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Software development teams in large scale offshore enterprise development programmes are often under intense pressure to deliver high quality software within challenging time contraints. Project failures can attract adverse publicity and damage corporate reputations. Agile methods have been advocated to reduce project risks, improving both productivity and product quality. This article uses practitioner descriptions of agile method tailoring to explore large scale offshore enterprise development programmes with a focus on product owner role tailoring, where the product owner identifies and prioritises customer requirements. In globalised projects, the product owner must reconcile competing business interests, whilst generating and then prioritising large numbers of requirements for numerous development teams. The study comprises eight international companies, based in London, Bangalore and Delhi. Interviews with 46 practitioners were conducted between February 2010 and May 2012. Grounded theory was used to identify that product owners form into teams. The main contribution of this research is to describe the nine product owner team functions identified: groom, prioritiser, release master, technical architect, governor, communicator, traveller, intermediary and risk assessor. These product owner functions arbitrate between conflicting customer requirements, approve release schedules, disseminate architectural design decisions, provide technical governance and propogate information across teams. The functions identified in this research are mapped to a scrum of scrums process, and a taxonomy of the functions shows how focusing on either decision-making or information dissemination in each helps to tailor agile methods to large scale offshore enterprise development programmes.Keywords agile software development · scrum · large scale offshore enterprise development programmes · product owner · product owner teams · grounded theory.

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“…Apesar do crescente interesse, a escassez de estudos consolidados sobre a utilização de práticas ágeis, especificamente em projetos de controle de equipamentos, torna necessário compreender como estes métodos podem ser aplicados e quais benefícios podem ser almejados. Atualmente a maioria das pesquisas realizadas sobre o tema se baseia em um contexto típico, no qual os frameworks e ferramentas estão adaptados de forma a facilitar a aplicação das técnicas [6]. Neste estudo mensuraram-se vantagens e desvantagens da aplicação de Metodologias Ágeis especificamente no contexto da prestação de serviços de Automação Industrial.…”

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Utilização De Métodologias Ágeis De Desenvolvimento De Software Na Melhoria Contínua De Processos Industriais

Cotta¹,

Medeiros²

2017

Anais Do Seminário De Automação &Amp; TI

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ResumoO mercado de Siderurgia no Brasil vive um momento de pressão causado pelas quedas dos preços internacionais e agravado por fatores internos como a redução no consumo, aumento do custo de energia e tributação elevada. Tendo em vista que, ao menos no curto prazo, não há perspectiva de melhoria, as indústrias do setor se mobilizam para adequar a esta nova realidade. A sobrevivência em um cenário de alta competitividade é garantida reduzindo custos de produção e manutenção e buscando aumentar a produtividade sem, entretanto, expandir a capacidade produtiva. Para atingir estes objetivos as indústrias focam em pequenas melhorias operacionais, com investimentos em pequenas modernizações e otimizações de processos existentes, em detrimento de grandes investimentos em expansões. Neste contexto observa-se um aumento na relevância do software de automação, que surge como alternativa para realização de melhorias, pois possuem custo relativamente baixo em comparação com reformas a nível mecânico e podem proporcionar ganhos importantes de eficiência e qualidade. Este artigo apresenta um estudo da utilização de metodologias ágeis de desenvolvimento de software para realização de melhoria contínua em processos industriais. Como exemplo de aplicação é apresentado o trabalho de otimização do software de automação de um laminador de alumínio com foco no aumento de sua taxa de utilização. A meta foi buscar um ganho de produtividade garantindo os mesmos padrões de segurança originais dos equipamentos e com impacto mínimo nas atividades produtivas. Palavras-chave: Automação; Melhoria contínua; Metodologias ágeis; Primetals Technologies Brazil. USE OF AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AbstractThe Iron and Steelmaking market in Brazil is experiencing a moment of pressure caused by the drop of international prices and aggravated by internal factors like the reduction in consumption, the increased cost of energy and high taxation. Given that, at least in short term, there's no prospect of improvement, the sectors industries are mobilizing to fit this new reality. Survival in a highly competitive scenario is guaranteed reducing production and maintenance costs and seeking to increase productivity without, however expanding production capacity. To achieve these goals the industries focus on small operational improvements, with investments in small optimizations and modernizations of existing processes, rather than large investments in expansions. In this context an increase in the relevance of automation software is observed, which becomes an alternative for making improvements because they have relatively low cost compared to mechanical revamps and can provide significant gains in efficiency and quality. This article presents a study of the use of Agile software development for achieving continuous improvement in industrial processes. As an example of application is presented the work of automation software optimization of an aluminum rolling mill with a focus on increasing its utilization...

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“…Many developers seemed problems with agile development techniques. Agile is facing problem when tried to scale, too many meetings, loss sight on big picture and lack of schedule [29]. The first challenge for large scale systems is the scope and complication.…”

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Agile Scalability for Large Scale Projects: Lessons Learned

Saeeda¹,

Arif²,

Minhas³

et al. 2020

JSW

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In modern well known approaches, "agile" has emerged as the leading approach in software industry for the development of the software projects. With different innovative shapes agile is applicable for handling the issues regarding cost, time, continuously change environment and requirements. Agile has proved to be successful in the small and medium size project, however, it have several limitations when applied on large size projects. The aim of this study is to analyze agile approaches in detail, finding its success stories in small and medium size projects and highlighting its limitations for large size projects .This study will identify the current research problem of the agile scalability for large size projects by giving a detail literature review of the identified problem, and will synthesize the existing work for covering the identified problem in the agile scalability. Based on it, we can judge the limitations of agile scalability for large size projects and can think of some remedial approach for overcoming these limitations in future.

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Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study

Cited by 154 publications

References 11 publications

How product owner teams scale agile methods to large distributed enterprises

How product owner teams scale agile methods to large distributed enterprises

Utilização De Métodologias Ágeis De Desenvolvimento De Software Na Melhoria Contínua De Processos Industriais

Agile Scalability for Large Scale Projects: Lessons Learned

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