Using an ontology for systematic practice adoption in agile methods: Expert system and practitioners-based validation

Kiv, Soreangsey; Heng, Samedi; Wautelet, Yves; Poelmans, Stephan; Kolp, Manuel

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2022.116520

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“…52 However, using an evaluation technique depends on the purpose of evaluation. 47 The four main evaluations and comparisons methods are: gold-standard, application-based, data sources, and human-centric. 52 The gold-standard method compares well-formed schema of a given ontology with schemas of other candidate ontologies in a domain.…”

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“…A number of approaches are presented by researchers for evaluating ontologies from quality, correctness, and usability perspectives 52 . However, using an evaluation technique depends on the purpose of evaluation 47 . The four main evaluations and comparisons methods are: gold‐standard, application‐based, data sources, and human‐centric 52 .…”

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“…Ortega‐Ordoñez 37 has presented a generic OntoAgile to provide a generic and formal way for organizing knowledge about using agile approaches in software development processes in organizations to reduce ambiguity in terminologies for concepts and properties, allowing knowledge sharing and reuse, and facilitate evaluation of agility of the software processes. Kiv et al 46,47 have argued about using ontology as an efficient solution of systematic adaptation and reusability of information regarding agile practices and have developed, implemented, and validated ontology with enhanced concept and properties for using in excerpt system to provide concrete agile practices knowledge for practitioners. A generic ontology is developed for ontology‐based knowledge modeling of sustainability assessment domain for knowledge conceptualization and using knowledge engineering to make gathered knowledge reusable and publicly available, particularly in terms of interoperability for sustainability assessment 48 …”

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Different software development approaches (SDAs) are developed with broad portfolios of development processes. Each of the approaches has certain exclusive principles, practices, thinking, and values, which are informally represented, implemented, and improperly institutionalized. Ontologies are developed for the representation, assessment, and adaptation of SDAs separately without having a shared terminology which may lead to terminological conflict and confusion affecting the simultaneous representation and implementation in software development industry and academia. The software engineering approaches does not consider and support sustainability as priority concern. However, the approaches have capabilities of supporting sustainable software development in different sustainability aspects. This research article aims for the designing and development of an integrated ontology of software engineering approaches (i.e., agile, lean, and green) named OntoSuSD (ontology for sustainable software development) to support sustainable software development knowledge, awareness, and implementation. The goal of OntoSuSD is to propose, design and develop a formal, generic, consistent, and shared knowledge base containing semantic terminology and description of concepts and relationships generated around the representation and implementation of lean, agile, and green approaches in software development processes, which will facilitate their simultaneous implementation and assessment for sustainable software development. The OntoSuSD is developed using practical ontology engineering methodology by reusing relevant ontologies and explicit concepts and properties are defined to fulfill knowledge requirements and representations of the domain.The OntoSuSD is evaluated, and results infer OntoSuSD has high ontological design, good domain coverage, potential applications and achieves purpose of the ontology development.

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“…They can also filter for only relevant information based on their goals and context. The tool has been evaluated by agile practitioners on a set of criteria related to efficiency in Kiv et al (2022). Results allow us to declare that all the features in our tool are efficient enough for users.…”

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“…The tool presented in this paper is part of a larger research effort to build and validate an ontology for agile practice adoption. A primary ontology for practices adoption was presented in Kiv et al (2017aKiv et al ( ,b, 2019 while the entire research to build the ontology validating and populating it has been depicted in (Kiv et al, 2022). Ontology creation has been used previously in the domain of agile methods like in Wautelet et al (2014) with the aim of creating requirements (conceptual) models and assist in software engineering (see Wautelet et al (2017)); it is here used as a database structure to support the knowledge retrieval of agile practice adoption in a flexible and custom manner.…”

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OBAMA, an Ontology-Based Software Tool for Agile Method Adoption

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Tools like Protégé support the creation and edition of one or more ontologies in a single workspace. They nevertheless require a user to be familiar with this kind of abstractions and their supporting techniques such as a reasoner and SPARQL queries. This paper presents a step-by-step implementation of a prototype-tool that allows retrieving and displaying easily the information about agile practices contained in an ontology using Python programming language.Future development includes the flexible insertion, modification, and removal of knowledge by the user.

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Scaling scrum with a customized nexus framework: A report from a joint industry‐academia research project

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Despite a wide range of scaling frameworks available, large‐scale agile transformations are not straightforward undertakings. Few organizations have structures in place that fit the predefined workflows – while once one applies an off‐the‐shelf framework outside of its prescribed process, guidance quickly runs out. In this paper, we demonstrate how to instantiate a method configuration process using a lightweight experimental approach embedded in Action Research cycles. The proposed approach was developed to assist practitioners working on a multiple‐team project at Intel Technology Poland to find the right practices to continue their Nexus‐based transformation and integrate their in‐house method into the already established company structures, processes, and routines. In particular, it enabled identifying a series of challenges with scaled practices and coping with those. The challenges ranged from logistical problems, through poor availability of the Product Owner, to lackluster knowledge transfer and a wide array of communication/coordination issues at meetings. The study broadens the current body of knowledge within technology management and the scaled agile method‐tailoring domain. It indicates potential corrective actions that may be taken advantage of by entities that are not inclined, due to organizational constraints, to directly implement an off‐the‐shelf framework. Furthermore, our study demonstrates that a gradual transition to large‐scale agile at the project level (1) is possible with the preservation of traditional command‐and‐control management practices; (2) requires neither middle management involvement nor upfront investment; and (3) does not need to disrupt the continuous delivery of the product.

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Using an ontology for systematic practice adoption in agile methods: Expert system and practitioners-based validation

Cited by 13 publications

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OntoSuSD: Software engineering approaches integration ontology for sustainable software development

OntoSuSD: Software engineering approaches integration ontology for sustainable software development

OBAMA, an Ontology-Based Software Tool for Agile Method Adoption

Scaling scrum with a customized nexus framework: A report from a joint industry‐academia research project

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