Identifying Factors Influencing on Agile Practices for Software Development

Abstract

<jats:p>Agile practices are activities or actions that are utilized during software development to improve the quality and productivity of the resulting software. Those practices are influenced by a set of factors that affect the realization of their objectives. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of organizational factors and the personnel working on the software development project to the agile practices. To this end, a model has been proposed that is composed of six critical success factors derived from the theories of administrative and human behavior and four groups of agile practices, and resulted in identifying 13 factor-practice relationships. The results from 146 questionnaires addressed to individuals involved in the software development process show that the factors of Confidence, Perception of Self-efficacy, Integrity and Availability of the Information and Experiences Learned, and Media Used all have a noteworthy positive influence on teamwork agile practices.</jats:p>

The Integrated List of Agile Practices -- A Tertiary Study

“…Based on our findings we identified that the practices in some studies are on a more detailed level (e.g. according to Arcos-Medina [6]). The list of agile practices without any redundancies is the basis for the following steps.…”

“…In total, the 37 studies list 944 agile practices. The count of listed agile practices in the included studies range from 4 [41] to 93 agile practices [6]. Almost half of the studies (17) list between 20 and 40 agile practices (see Figure 4).…”

A Systematic literature Review- “Effects of Hybrid-Agile approaches and methods on the quality of software.”

“…Many firms nowadays aspire to develop systems in a short amount of time and at a low cost [11]. They utilize agile approaches as a result they enable flexibility, allow modifications at any time, and are contributed to greater software quality [12] [11]. Despite the use of innovative approaches, a large number of IT initiatives fail.…”

“…Papers I have examined have a diverse perspective on software's quality. Many researchers define quality as satisfying the demands and expectations of customers, whereas [12] defines the 3 forms of the software quality: design quality, performance quality and adoption quality. Quality attributes can be broken down by these characteristics.…”

“…To increase software quality, some hybrid models combine the best of both methods. Scrum, Lean Software Development and Extreme Programming are combined in the hybrid agile model [3] .Other writers allude to the same agile composition but do not use the same terminology [12], [13] [18]. It's a method of agile development that prioritizes quality.…”