Survey on agile and lean usage in finnish software industry

Rodríguez, Pilar; Markkula, Jouni; Oivo, Markku; Turula, Kimmo

doi:10.1145/2372251.2372275

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“…So demystifying it for them has been an on-going and challenging issue". Interestingly, similar challenges have been reported in earlier studies [1,5,6,25].…”

Section: Challenges In Kanban Usesupporting

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Insights into the Perceived Benefits of Kanban in Software Companies: Practitioners’ Views

Ahmad

Markkula

Oivo

2016

Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming

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Abstract. In the last decade, Kanban has been promoted as a means for bringing visibility to work while improving the software development flow, team communication and collaboration. However, little empirical evidence exists regarding Kanban use in the software industry. This paper aims to investigate the factors that users perceive to be important for Kanban use. We conducted a survey in 2015 among Kanban practitioners in the LeanKanban LinkedIn community. The survey results consist of 146 responses from 27 different organisations, with all respondents being experienced in using Kanban. The results show that practitioners perceived Kanban as easy to learn and useful in individual and team work. They also consider organisational support and social influence to be important determinants for Kanban use. Respondents noted various perceived benefits for using Kanban, such as bringing visibility to work, helping to reduce work in progress, improving development flow, increasing team communication and facilitating coordination. Despite the benefits, participants also identified challenges to using Kanban, such as organisational support and culture, difficulties in Kanban implementation, lack of training and misunderstanding of key concepts. The paper summarises the results and includes a discussion of implications for effective deployment of Kanban before describing future research needs.

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“…So demystifying it for them has been an on-going and challenging issue". Interestingly, similar challenges have been reported in earlier studies [1,5,6,25].…”

Section: Challenges In Kanban Usesupporting

confidence: 87%

Insights into the Perceived Benefits of Kanban in Software Companies: Practitioners’ Views

Ahmad

Markkula

Oivo

2016

Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming

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“…Indicative works note efficiency gains (Kahkonen, 2004 andMcInerney andMaurer, 2005) cost savings, error reduction and improved quality (Rodríguez et al, 2012). Similarly, Federoff and Courage (2009) note increased performance (61%) output (94%) and productivity (38%).…”

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Go with the Flow: Accelerated digital design in the age of Post-agility

Knight

2017

The Design Journal

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“…Today, most companies have adopted agile methods, and different flavours of the methods have become the de facto way of working in the software industry [5]. In allowing for more flexible ways of working with an emphasis on customer collaboration and speed of development, agile methods help companies address many of the problems associated with traditional development [6].…”

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Hitting the Target: Practices for Moving Toward Innovation Experiment Systems

Karvonen

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Sauvola

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Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. The benefits and barriers that software development companies face when moving beyond agile development practices are identified in a multiplecase study in five Finnish companies. The practices that companies need to adopt when moving towards innovation experiment systems are recognised. The background of the study is the Stairway to Heaven (StH) model that describes the path that many software development companies take when advancing their development practices. The development practices in each case are investigated and analysed in relation to the StH model. At first the results of the analysis strengthened the validity of the StH model as a path taken by software development companies to advance their development practices. Based on the findings, the StH model was extended with a set of additional practices and their adoption levels for each step of the model. The extended model was validated in five case companies.

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Survey on agile and lean usage in finnish software industry

Cited by 136 publications

References 19 publications

Insights into the Perceived Benefits of Kanban in Software Companies: Practitioners’ Views

Insights into the Perceived Benefits of Kanban in Software Companies: Practitioners’ Views

Go with the Flow: Accelerated digital design in the age of Post-agility

Hitting the Target: Practices for Moving Toward Innovation Experiment Systems

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