An Approach for Assessing Suitability of Agile Solutions: A Case Study

Pikkarainen, Minna; Passoja, Ulla

doi:10.1007/11499053_20

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“…Researchers and practitioners who study or implement agile methods in large, mature organizations document the associated difficulties [e.g., Berger and Beynon-Davies, 2009;Boehm and Turner, 2005;Lindvall et al, 2004;Pikkarainen et al, 2008;Pikkarainen and Passoja, 2005]. Proponents of agile methodologies make suggestions for scaling agile methodologies to larger teams and projects [e.g., Cohn, 2007], but in our review of academic and practitioner journals, we find no articles with complete success stories of agile life cycles in large organizations (see Appendix A).…”

Section: Agile Development In Mature Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Overview and Guidance on Agile Development in Large Organizations

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A continual debate surrounds the effectiveness of agile software development practices. Some organizations adopt agile practices to become more competitive, improve processes, and reduce costs. Other organizations are skeptical about whether agile development is beneficial. Large organizations face an additional challenge in integrating agile practices with existing standards and business processes. To examine the effects of agile development practices in large organizations, we review and integrate scientific literature and theory on agile software development. We further organize our theory and observations into a framework with guidelines for large organizations considering agile methodologies. Based on this framework, we present recommendations that suggest ways large organizations with established processes can successfully implement agile practices. Our analysis of the literature and theory provides new insight for researchers of agile software development and assists practitioners in determining how to adopt agile development in their organizations.

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Section: Agile Development In Mature Organizationsmentioning

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“…Pikkaraine [17] found that Agile Assessment is an efficient method to clarify what agile practices are suitable for the organization's product development and customer co-operation.…”

Section: Adopting Agile Methods For Safety-critical Systemsmentioning

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Suitability of Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems Development: A Survey of Literature

Mwadulo¹

2016

IJCATR

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Lately, agile methods have widely been used in large organizations. This contrasts to previous practice, where they were mainly used for small projects. However, developers of safety critical systems have shied away from using these methods for the right and wrong reasons. Adoption of agile methods for safety critical system development is low and there is need to find out why this is so especially since agile methods allow a more relaxed approach towards documentation, flexible development lifecycle based on short iterations and accommodates changing requirements. This paper presents a report of a detailed analysis of literature and aims to shed light on the suitability of agile methods for developing safety critical systems .The findings indicate that many organizations are relying on traditional methods to develop safety critical systems because they are familiar with them and have been thoroughly tested over time. However with the advent of agile methods there is a paradigm shift by non safety critical system developers, nevertheless this is not happening with the safety critical system developers and there is need to find out why.

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“…The Adept method [28] was previously developed to provide a lightweight assessment of software processes (mainly against the generic SPI model of the CMMI [7], with some reference to ISO/IEC 15504). In parallel to this, an agile assessment approach [33,34] was developed to provide a way to identify agile based improvement solutions for Finnish software companies. The Adept method has now been integrated with this agile assessment approach, taking Automotive SPICE TM process areas into account, producing AHAA.…”

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“…Based on our previous research, they are process areas which provide a significant level of benefit to Irish SMEs software development organisations [5,8,29,45]; B. They have been highlighted within automotive engineering literature as fundamental to the development of efficient software development [39]; C. They have process area counterparts included within the HIS subset of 15 process areas [19]; D. They were previously included in the Adept method [28]; E. They were previously included in the agile assessment approach [33,34].…”

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Ahaa --agile, hybrid assessment method for automotive, safety critical smes

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Pikkarainen

Richardson

2008

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE '08

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The need for software is increasingly growing in the automotive industry. Software development projects are, however, often troubled by time and budget overruns, resulting in systems that do not fulfill customer requirements. Both research and industry lack strategies to combine reducing the long software development lifecycles (as required by time-to-market demands) with increasing the quality of the software developed. Software process improvement (SPI) provides the first step in the move towards software quality, and assessments are a vital part of this process. Unfortunately, software process assessments are often expensive and time consuming. Additionally, they often provide companies with a long list of issues without providing realistic suggestions. The goal of this paper is to describe a new low-overhead assessment method that has been designed specifically for small-to-mediumsized (SMEs) organisations wishing to be automotive software suppliers. This assessment method integrates the structured-ness of the plan-driven SPI models of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and Automotive SPICE TM with the flexibleness of agile practices.

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An Approach for Assessing Suitability of Agile Solutions: A Case Study

Cited by 23 publications

References 12 publications

Overview and Guidance on Agile Development in Large Organizations

Overview and Guidance on Agile Development in Large Organizations

Suitability of Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems Development: A Survey of Literature

Ahaa --agile, hybrid assessment method for automotive, safety critical smes

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