Challenges in Migration from Waterfall to Agile Environments

Abstract

Software development methodologies are constantly evolving due to the appearance of new technologies and increasingly demanding user requests. Organizations seek to respond to these new challenges by changing their work practices, both at the technical and organizational levels. Agile methodologies thus emerge as a new development model characterized by greater flexibility and responsiveness to these new requirements, but also introduced new challenges. This study adopts a systematic review methodology to identify the key challenges in the migration process from traditional software development paradigms to agile methodologies. Four dimensions of challenges and a total of 49 sub-dimensions were found. Additionally, we discussed how those challenges can emerge, and what practices can be applied to properly manage and mitigate them.

How Power Influences Behavior in Projects: A Theory of Planned Behavior Perspective

“…Resistance has been identified as important for the success or otherwise of the adoption of new software development approaches such as agile (Dikert et al, 2016;Kalenda et al, 2018;Vijayasarathy & Turk, 2008). Culture too has been identified as a barrier to software adoption (see, e.g., Almeida, 2017;Chan & Thong, 2009;Stoica et al, 2016).…”

“…To the extent that actors become subjects of those in power, boundaries of acceptable behavior are either strengthened or undermined, and a reflexive relationship exists between power, behavior, and organizational structure (Giddens, 1979). This reflexive relationship is echoed in the information systems literature, where the introduction of agile software development methodology was seen to influence, and be influenced by, organizational culture (Almeida, 2017;Tanner & von Willingh, 2014). The focus of this research is resistance to power, because when someone resists their behavior can be silhouetted against the backdrop of expected compliance.…”

Agile Software Development Techniques: A Survey

“…The waterfall model divides the projects based on process activities like [10,11]. This approach provides a consistent way to deal with this dynamic behaviour of requirements as Process ability to iterate itself, having active interaction and communication among clients and development team, flexibility in project management and active involvement of customer during the whole development cycle are the main characteristics of agile software development [12,13]. Another basic characteristic of the agile method is its provision of communication both among the development team and customers.…”

Desafios no uso de metodologias ágeis de gestão de projetos em órgãos públicos: um estudo de caso da Receita Estadual do Paraná.

“…Assim nos anos 1990, pesquisadores da área de desenvolvimento de software passaram a buscar formas mais enxutas para gerenciar seus projetos, visando dinamizar a execução (Vacari, 2015), e permitir, quando necessário, a flexibilização do escopo (Almeida, 2017). Inicialmente, denominados pela comunidade de desenvolvimento de software como métodos leves, esses frameworksem torno de uma dezenaconsolidaram-se sob o guarda-chuva de métodos ágeis.…”

“…Inicialmente, denominados pela comunidade de desenvolvimento de software como métodos leves, esses frameworksem torno de uma dezenaconsolidaram-se sob o guarda-chuva de métodos ágeis. Entre esses métodos, o Scrum é o mais utilizado, juntamente com Extreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Development (TDD), Agile Unified Process, dentre outros (Santos, 2015;Almeida, 2017).…”