A lightweight framework for describing software practices

Kirk, Diana; Tempero, Ewan

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2011.09.024

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“…We apply the 'lightweight software practice framework' of [6] to help classify the practices identified, and the cause-effect diagrams of [15] to draw out the relationships between issues encountered, the practices and roles adopted in response, and the evolution of those agile practices and roles.…”

Section: Background and Theorymentioning

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Enhancing product and service capability through scaling agility in a global software vendor environment

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2018

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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Agile software development has become increasingly common in software vendor organisations, and their impact on practices and roles is now extending beyond the project level across the entire organisation. In this study, we investigate how a major Australiabased multi-site global software vendor transitioned from a structured to a Scaled Agile approach.We demonstrate how practices and roles in a distributed software vendor evolved over time across the organisation in an on-going process of their global agile transformation. Through this elaboration, we identify three major agile transitions and the contribution of a scaled agile approach in the building of market driven capabilities. We theorised a relationship between increased dynamic capabilities of the firm and a scaled agile transition. Supporting our view, we noted that agile practices and roles across the organisation contributed as expected to improved internal process capability. More surprisingly, they were also found to increase our vendor's ability both to identify and take advantage of opportunities and to innovate in global product and service development and delivery. CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Software creation and management → Software development process management → Software development methods → Agile software development •

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Enhancing product and service capability through scaling agility in a global software vendor environment

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“…Developers' skills and experience highly affect the adoption of Agile methods [67], [83]. Thus, inexperienced developers may end up adopting inappropriate Agile methods [17], [31], [67].…”

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“…Thus, inexperienced developers may end up adopting inappropriate Agile methods [17], [31], [67]. Additionally, pair programming has been a common XP practice but has been found to be inefficient [61], [112], [113], especially when the programmers have incompatible and inappropriate sets of experience and skills for the tasks at hand [114].…”

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Key Factors for Selecting an Agile Method: A Systematic Literature Review

Alqudah¹,

Razali²

2017

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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Abstract-Agile methods have become popular in recent years because the success rate of project development using Agile methods is better than structured design methods. Nevertheless, less than 50 percent of projects implemented using Agile methods are considered successful, and selecting the wrong Agile method is one of the reasons for project failure. Selecting the most appropriate Agile method is a challenging task because there are so many to choose from. In addition, potential adopters believe that migrating to an Agile method involves taking a drastic risk. Therefore, to assist project managers and other decision makers, this study aims to identify the key factors that should be considered when selecting an appropriate Agile method. A systematic literature review was performed to elicit these factors in an unbiased manner, and then content analysis was used to analyze the resultant data. It was found that the nature of the project, development team skills, project constraints, customer involvement and organizational culture are the key factors that should guide decision makers in the selection of an appropriate Agile method based on the value these factors have for different organizations and/or different projects.

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“…We clearly need to introduce some structure, but found that the standard reference models did not suit when attempting to elicit information from individuals in smaller, less formal organisations (Kirk and Tempero, 2012a). It was clear that, if we wanted to capture practices-as-implemented-in-thereal-world, some new perspective was required.…”

Section: Processmentioning

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Progress Report on a Proposed Theory for Software Development

Kirk¹,

MacDonell

2015

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends

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Abstract:There is growing acknowledgement within the software engineering community that a theory of software development is needed to integrate the myriad methodologies that are currently popular, some of which are based on opposing perspectives. We have been developing such a theory for a number of years. In this position paper, we overview our theory along with progress made thus far. We suggest that, once fully developed, this theory, or one similar to it, may be applied to support situated software development, by providing an overarching model within which software initiatives might be categorised and understood. Such understanding would inevitably lead to greater predictability with respect to outcomes.

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A lightweight framework for describing software practices

Cited by 16 publications

References 15 publications

Enhancing product and service capability through scaling agility in a global software vendor environment

Enhancing product and service capability through scaling agility in a global software vendor environment

Key Factors for Selecting an Agile Method: A Systematic Literature Review

Progress Report on a Proposed Theory for Software Development

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