“Leagile” software development: An experience report analysis of the application of lean approaches in agile software development

Wang, Xiaofeng; Conboy, Kieran; Cawley, Oisín

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2012.01.061

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“…Holtsnider et al [36] in their book have stressed that Agile organization should focus on the long-term business goals in their development process. Wang et al [37] explained how business goals and value impress organizations in performing their Agile projects and applying Agile approach. Bachmann et al [38] by focusing on Scrum teams declared that the basic condition of stability in software development is considering and following long-term goal.…”

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

Gandomani¹,

Nafchi²

2016

Journal of Internet Computing and Services

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Prevalence of Agile methods in software companies is increasing dramatically. Software companies need to employ these methods to overcome the inherent challenges of traditional methods. However, transitioning to Agile approach is a topic of debate and there is no unique and well-defined transition model or framework yet. Although some research studies have addressed barriers and strengths behind the successful Agile deployment, it seems that this process still needs to be studied more in depth. The rationale behind this is the socio-technical nature of Agile transition and adoption. Particularly, the challenges and problems that software companies are facing during Agile transition, show that this process in more difficult than expected. Conducting a large-scale research study revealed that Agile transition and adoption process needs to be supported by several critical prerequisites. This study adopted a Ground Theory with the participation of 49 Agile experts from 13 different countries and empirically identified seven transition prerequisites. These prerequisites focus on the different aspects of the transition. The main aim of this paper is proposing these prerequisites and theoretical and practical implication of these prerequisites. Providing these prerequisites before moving to Agile increases chance of success in Agile transition and adoption and leads to fewer challenges during the change process.

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Section: Focusing On Business Goalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Gandomani¹,

Nafchi²

2016

Journal of Internet Computing and Services

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“…For example, to accelerate the PD process, Wheelwright and Clark [10] emphasize the necessity of understanding how problem solving is carried out across PD and Man and Sobek et al [9] present Set-Based Concurrent Engineering. Even though lean principles and practices have been translated to the context of software development [20] it is not clear to what extent they have been applied and studied in large-scale software development [21,22].…”

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Software Process Improvement in Inter-departmental Development of Software-Intensive Automotive Systems – A Case Study

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Gorschek

Feldt

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

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“…Poppendieck and Poppendieck tell us that waste is anything which does not add value, Anderson tells us it is important to be able to visualise such process waste within the workflow, and Reinertsen agrees but suggests that we must weigh up the economic cost of eliminating a particular type of waste. Lean principles and practices continue to evolve but a synthesis of what we can call lean practices has been started by [5]. …”

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“…This, naturally, does not follow and we need to be clear what we actually mean when we refer to something as being lean. We therefore suggest that although Lean Software Development has piqued the interest of many within industry and academia, it lacks a formalised description which fuels the confusion which has grown up around it [3], [4], [5]. This paper aims to begin a process of definition by presenting a view of the origins and subsequent contributions that have been made to LSD as we know it to date.…”

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Lean Software Development – What Exactly Are We Talking About?

Cawley

Wang

Richardson

2013

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. As the Software Engineering landscape continues to evolve and new paradigms are introduced, there can be a tendency for both industry and academia to enthusiastically embrace new approaches and march forward under whatever banner conventional wisdom has decided to adopt. One such banner is Lean Software Development, a paradigm that continues to see a growth in interest driven by the need for cost reductions within industry. The term lean attracts the attention of business, but precisely how it applies within software development is still being debated. In addition, its relationship to the better understood agile methodologies is also a topic for debate. Having been drawn into this research area ourselves, we present here a review of Lean Software Development and try to distil out for the reader some understanding of this somewhat undefined topic. We conclude with some thoughts on where this subject might go to from here.

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“Leagile” software development: An experience report analysis of the application of lean approaches in agile software development

Cited by 151 publications

References 47 publications

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

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

Software Process Improvement in Inter-departmental Development of Software-Intensive Automotive Systems – A Case Study

Lean Software Development – What Exactly Are We Talking About?

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