Identifying some important success factors in adopting agile software development practices

The Essential Prerequisites of Agile Transition and Adoption: a Grounded Theory Approach

“…Furthermore, encouraging people to change, as an Agile transition facilitator, was emphasized in many articles [12,30,31]. Misra et al [8] addressed customer commitment as one of the most important successful factors in Agile migration.…”

“…Conboy et al [28] explained how training can be considered as a strategy for dealing with challenges during Agile adoption. Misra et al [8] showed that training and learning is one of the critical factors in Agile practice adoption.…”

“…Giving team members most of the decision making authority increases collaboration and creativity in Agile teams. Misra et al [8] discovered that competent and smart people strongly facilitate Agile adoption comparing with indifference people.…”

“…Furthermore, some other studies have addressed various success factors that can facilitate moving to Agile. Most of the addressed drivers, success factors, and facilitators are those that have focused on people-related issues [7][8][9].…”

Factors Affecting Effectiveness of Agile Usage – Insights from the BBC Worldwide Case Study

“…They are: 1) productivity improvements in the development process, and 2) improved quality of the delivered system. In addition, a third construct, customer satisfaction, which is recognized as a key measure of agile effectiveness in the agile literature [33,34] was used to measure agile effectiveness.…”