Teaching Agile Methods to Software Engineering Professionals: 10 Years, 1000 Release Plans

Martín, Àngela; Anslow, Craig; Johnson, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57633-6_10

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“…This suggests that agile mindset is not about particular detailed practices or rituals. This is consistent with earlier findings [21,22,23,24].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 94%

“…The detailed contribution of this paper is the identification of the elements of agile mindset as well as a preliminary evaluation of their importance to the effectiveness of an agile team based on an industrial opinion survey. This contributes to filling the gap in the literature related to the definition and scope of the agile mindset and the relative importance of its elements in the industry and education [22,23,24,25].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Agile Mindset of an Effective Team – An Industrial Opinion Survey

Miler¹,

Gaida²

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

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In this paper we present the results of an opinion survey among 52 agile practitioners who evaluated the importance of 26 selected elements of the agile mindset to the effectiveness of an agile team. In total, we have identified 70 unique agile mindset elements based on 11 literature sources and 5 interviews with industry experts. 7 elements belonged to the "support for business goals" category, 20 to the "relationships within the team" category, 24 to the "individual features" category, and 19 to the "organization of work" category. Our survey shows the relative importance of the selected 26 agile mindset elements according to our respondents which is not fully consistent with the principles behind the Agile Manifesto.

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“…This suggests that agile mindset is not about particular detailed practices or rituals. This is consistent with earlier findings [21,22,23,24].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 94%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Agile Mindset of an Effective Team – An Industrial Opinion Survey

Miler¹,

Gaida²

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

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“…Perhaps the most important lesson relates to collaborative practices: if we expect Agile methods to lead to satisfaction, they cannot be ignored, and must be supported. As educators ourselves, we have already been influ-enced to emphasize the importance of these practices, even beginning to o↵er specific courses [26,27,28,29,30,31]. This can be challenging because of limited opportunties to engage with real business requirements, and limited time for iterations and change.…”

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Satisfaction and its correlates in agile software development

Kropp

Meier

Anslow

et al. 2020

Journal of Systems and Software

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In this paper we address the topic software development team members satisfaction with their development process. We present an in-depth analysis of the results of a nationwide survey about software development in Switzerland. We wanted to find out if satisfaction relates to the applied development method, and to the use of various practices, and influences on business, team and software issues. We found that higher satisfaction is reported more by those using Agile development than with plan-driven processes. We explored the di↵erent perspectives of developers and those with a management role and found a high consistency of satisfaction between Agile developers and Agile management, and di↵erences with those using working plan-driven methods. We found that certain practices and influences have high correlations to satisfaction, and that collaborative processes are closely related to satisfaction. We then explored the relationship between satisfaction and various other perspectives. Our results in this analysis are principally descriptive, but we think they can be a relevant contribution to understand the challenges for everyone involved in Agile development.

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“…As Král and Žemlička summarized in their paper [6], the problems frequently occur in the planning and managing phase rather than in the developing phase, or as a failure of development responsibilities. Consequently, it is obvious that some other skills beyond programming and technical excellence is needed [7] and those soft skills are not always easy to learn or acquire [8].…”

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Issues and Challenges of Adopting Agile Methodologies in Software Engineering Courses

2018

Int. j. technol. eng. stud.

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Studies in the field of software engineering show that the problems frequently occur in the planning and managing phase rather than in the developing phase. Consequently, it is obvious that some other skills beyond programming and technical excellence are needed. However, those soft skills are not always easy to learn or acquire. Its adoption and correct usage can be very hard even for experienced software engineers, and thus students must prepare in advance and proposals from various authors have been enumerated. Human factor can accelerate, but it can also impede the acquisition of agile values due to lack of knowledge, cultural issues, resistance to change, wrong mind set and lack collaboration. Furthermore, there are some aspects that usually do not occur in real-world. Students are usually distracted with some other activities, do not have a common working place causing additional effort when "meeting" in distributed context. Literature review had been done to find possible solutions to avoid some of aforementioned issues. This paper elicits common problems mentioned in literature expanded with some issues, opinions and suggestions from authors' point of view according to authors' previous experiences of using agile methodologies in software development courses.

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Teaching Agile Methods to Software Engineering Professionals: 10 Years, 1000 Release Plans

Cited by 25 publications

References 9 publications

On the Agile Mindset of an Effective Team – An Industrial Opinion Survey

On the Agile Mindset of an Effective Team – An Industrial Opinion Survey

Satisfaction and its correlates in agile software development

Issues and Challenges of Adopting Agile Methodologies in Software Engineering Courses

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