Assessment of Agility in Software Organizations with a Web-Based Agility Assessment Tool

Adali, Onat Ege; Top, Özden Özcan; Demirörs, Onur

doi:10.1109/seaa.2017.61

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“…A continuación, se presentan los resultados del análisis de cada uno de los estudios primarios a través de cada una de las preguntas de investigación. E1 Adept: a unified assessment method for small software companies [25] E2 A disciplined approach to adopting agile practices: the agile adoption framework [26] E3 On the measurement of agility in software process [27] E4 An evaluation of the degree of agility in six agile methods and its applicability for method engineering, 2008 [28] E5 CEFAM: comprehensive evaluation framework for agile methodologies 2008 [29] E6 Project agility assessment: an integrated decision analysis approach 2008 [30] E7 Using a validation model to measure the agility of software development in a large software development organization 2009 [31] E8 A practical measure for the agility of software development processes [32] E9 Study on assessment framework of software process in agile [33] E10 A methodology for assessing agile software development methods [34] E11 A model for measuring agility in small and medium software development enterprises [35] E12 Towards a framework for assessing agility [36] E13 Development of the organizational agility maturity model [37] E14 A reference model for software agility assessment: Agilitymod [15] E15 Assessment of agility in software organizations with a web-based agility assessment tool [38] E16 ASA: agile software development self-assessment method [39] E17 Squad Health Check model [40] E18 Scrum Level [41] Con relación al alcance de la evaluación, el 22,2% de los estudios (E1, E3, E8, E9) propone evaluar el proceso software usado por la organización; otro 22,2% de los estudios (E4, E5, E10, E16) propone evaluar un enfoque de desarrollo en particular, por ejemplo Scrum, XP o una adaptación; el 22,2% de los estudios (E11, E12, E13, E18) propone evaluar la agilidad de una organización, el 16,7% (E6, E14, E15) se enfoca en evaluar la agilidad de un proyecto de desarrollo de software, el 11,1% (E2, E7) ha sido propuesto para evaluar la agilidad tanto de organizaciones como de proyectos, y el estudio E17 que corresponde al 5,5% permite evaluar la agilidad de un equipo de desarrollo (Fig. 1).…”

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Systematic mapping on the agility evaluation in software development organizations

Ortega-Ordóñez

Pardo

Pino-Correa

2019

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Agile software development approaches provide great benefits for organizations; however, their implementation is subject to many challenges. For organizations is important to know the level of agility achieved and the gaps in their transformation process in order to implement improvements in their processes and take advantage of the agile approaches. Keeping this in mind, this article presents a systematic mapping of the literature about the evaluation of agility in software development organizations. As a result, 18 studies were found, which were analyzed and compared taking into account the type of study, the relationship of the evaluation with the principles and agile values, the defined evaluation criteria, the validation methods used, and the proposed tools. In addition, the factors that influence the assessment of agility and the aspects that motivate the interest in this research stream are exposed.

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Systematic mapping on the agility evaluation in software development organizations

Ortega-Ordóñez

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Pino-Correa

2019

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“…Still, 22.2% of the studies [16], [17], [18], [19] focus on assessing the agility of companies. 16.7% [4], [20], [21] focus on assessing the agility of software development projects. 11.1% [22] propose to assess the agility of companies and their projects.…”

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A Reference Model Based on Agile Values, Principles, and Aspects of Scrum, XP and Kanban to Foster the Adoption of Agility in Industry

Pardo¹,

Ortega²,

Gómez³

2021

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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Currently, there is a broad range of software development agile approaches mainly based on the values and principles defined in the agile manifesto (AM). However, in many cases, their implementation is carried out informally and without being aligned with the values and principles stated. In practice, practitioners and consultants may lose sight of the AM recommendations, which could jeopardize the companies' agility, therefore, applying an agile approach does not make a company agile. In this article, we present a reference model called AgilityRef, which allows practitioners to support the understanding and implementation of the values and principles of the agile manifesto in the software development processes of a company, this, through twenty-two aspects defined from relations established between principles and values described in the AM and processes elements described in Scrum, XP, and Kanban. The evaluation of AgilityRef was carried out through a focus group where its completeness, understandability, and suitability were evaluated. Our findings suggest good enough acceptance by professionals and consultants who evaluated the proposal. The proposed reference model seems to allow professionals and companies to improve the understanding and implementation in practice of the concept of agility in their companies' software development processes, thus, minimizing the subjectivity and error of their process adoption, implementation, evaluation, and articulation with the principles and values of the agile manifesto.

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“…The results are obtained by automatically analyzing the collected data to measure the process capability. The work by [16] presents the AssessAgility software tool that aims at automating and guiding the assessment process based on an exemplar assessment process containing the definitions and guidance to conduct assessments following AgilityMod [4], which is a reference model for performing agility assessment in organisations. The work by [13] describes the development of a Software as a Service tool for carrying out business process assessment projects using the TIPA framework [21].…”

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“…The improvement of the assessment process is an open research subject that is addressed in both the scientific community and the industry. Several initiatives from different domains such as business process [13], software engineering process [11,14], enterprise interoperability [15], or organisational agility [16] have been proposed throughout the years in the search for assessment approaches with their activities improved through automation methods so as to provide trustworthy, relevant and adaptable results, and to reduce the time and effort of carrying out the assessment. Due to this tendency towards automation, providing smart capabilities to the assessment process may represent a step closer towards the achievement of more efficient appraisals.…”

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Towards Smart Assessment: A Metamodel Proposal

Romero

Guédria

Panetto

et al. 2020

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2019 Workshops

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Assessment initiatives in organisations are focused on the evaluation of organisational aspects aiming to obtain a critic view of their status. The assessment results are used to lead improvement programs or to serve as base for comparative purposes. Assessment approaches may comprise complex tasks demanding a large amount of time and resources. Moreover, assessment results are highly dependent on the assessment input, which may have a dynamic nature due to the constant evolution of organisations. The assessment results should be adaptable to these changes without much effort whilst being able to provide efficient and reliable results. Therefore, providing smart capabilities to the assessment process or to systems in charge of performing assessments represents a step forward in the search for more efficient appraisal processes. This work proposes a metamodel defining the elements of a Smart Assessment, which is guided by elements related to the smartness concept such as knowledge, learning, reasoning and inferring capabilities. The metamodel is further specialized considering a Business Process Interoperability Smart Assessment scenario.

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Assessment of Agility in Software Organizations with a Web-Based Agility Assessment Tool

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

Systematic mapping on the agility evaluation in software development organizations

Systematic mapping on the agility evaluation in software development organizations

A Reference Model Based on Agile Values, Principles, and Aspects of Scrum, XP and Kanban to Foster the Adoption of Agility in Industry

Towards Smart Assessment: A Metamodel Proposal

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