Understanding the perceived relevance of capability measures: A survey of Agile Software Development practitioners

Vishnubhotla, Sai Datta; Mendes, Emilia; Lundberg, Lars

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2021.111013

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“…We observed that most studies address team level only (61%), followed by five studies that discuss individual level (27%), and two studies that discuss both team and individual levels together (12%). Studies that addressed together social and technical factors are predominant (50%) (P1 [37], P2 [38], P3 [39], P6 [42], P7 [43], P8 [44], P10 [46], P15 [51], P18 [54]). Studies that consider social only factors represent 44% (P4 [40], P12 [48], P13 [49], P9 [45], P11 [47], P14 [50], P16 [52], P17 [53]).…”

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“…Social skills are highly sought after in agile environments, encompassing both personal skills [21] and managerial competencies of teams [11]. Among the individual attributes, seven studies (P1 [37], P2 [38], P3 [39], P4 [40], P12 [48], Fig. 3.…”

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“…In terms of professional capabilities within teams, the most frequently cited attributes were technical expertise (P2 [38], P6 [42], and P18 [54]), diversity of competencies (P1 [37], P6 [42], and P17 [53]), testing experience (P8 [44] and P15 [51]), domain knowledge (P2 [38] and P15 [51]), programming language (P2 [38] and P7 [43]), and experience with various tools (P2 [38] and P7 [43]). As demonstrated by Costa et al [55], technical expertise remains crucial in forming agile teams.…”

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“…As demonstrated by Costa et al [55], technical expertise remains crucial in forming agile teams. As for social attributes in teams, communication (P2 [38], P7 [43], P11 [47], and P16 [52]), adaptability (P7 [43], P16 [52], and P17 [53]), motivation (P2 [38], P7 [43], and P11 [47]), and problem-solving (P8 [44], P15 [51], and P17 [53]) were the most commonly mentioned attributes.…”

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“…Innovative team attributes identified include creative exploration and foresight skills (P2 [38]), openness to creativity and agile adaptation (P11 [47]), and task variety/innovation (P7 [43]). P1 [37], contributed ten measures for individual capabilities and 5 for team capabilities.…”

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An Insight into the Capabilities of Professionals and Teams in Agile Software Development: An Update of the Systematic Literature Review

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Agile Software Development (ASD) confronts the challenge of effectively measurement and predicting the capabilities of software engineers and teams to improve individual performance, team efficiency, and project success. This study delves into exploring and identifying gaps and research prospects in assessing and predicting human capabilities within ASD. Thus, we conducted a Systematic Literature Review, building upon a prior review from 2001 to 2016 by different authors. To encompass primary studies published after 2016, we extended to 2022. Further, our study extends the scope of the previous SLR with a new research question to identify key attributes in publications focused on agile team formation. Our findings disclosed new attributes for evaluating and predicting the capabilities of professionals engaged in ASD, such as Openness to Creativity and Agile Adaptation. These attributes boost individual performance, contribute to ameliorated team productivity, and facilitate the precise composition of teams. Moreover, this study expands our prior study, providing more details on capability identification and research design, extends the analysis of attributes and prediction models, provides a more granular discussion of discoveries and comparisons with prior review, and more indepth discussion about practical implications and thoroughly examines study validity. We observed that technical metrics were more prevalent than social and innovative aspects. Also, the study identified the prediction of agile capabilities as an emerging research domain necessitating further scrutiny due to the scarcity of existing models. The majority of studies (78%) supplied detailed metric descriptions, facilitating the evolution of the capabilities repository and supporting future investigations in this domain. Ultimately, these findings can aid agile practitioners in formulating team composition decisions based on individuals' and teams' appraised and foreseen abilities.

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Design and Validation of a Capability Measurement Instrument for DevOps Teams

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Hillegersberg

Aldea

2022

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This paper reports on the design and validation of a capability measurement instrument for software delivery teams that make use of the DevOps approach. The instrument is based on the results of a systematic literature review and was developed and validated by involving a total of five domain experts and conducting a field study among six DevOps team members. To this end, we used qualitative and survey-based data collection methods from participatory action research as well as design science. The resulting instrument encompasses five dimensions, covering seventeen capabilities and thirty-eight associated practices. The practices are evaluated on five capability levels. The results of the validation process indicate clear agreement of the domain experts and team members with all aspects of the instrument. As a contribution to practice, this research offers a pragmatic tool for IS practitioners which provides insight into the status of their DevOps transformation and offers directions for improving DevOps team performance. Furthermore, this research contributes to the ongoing research stream on DevOps by providing novel insights into the nature of DevOps capabilities and their potential configurations.

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The Prevent-Model: Human and Organizational Factors Fostering Engineering of Safe and Secure Robotic Systems

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Understanding the perceived relevance of capability measures: A survey of Agile Software Development practitioners

Cited by 9 publications

References 46 publications

An Insight into the Capabilities of Professionals and Teams in Agile Software Development: An Update of the Systematic Literature Review

An Insight into the Capabilities of Professionals and Teams in Agile Software Development: An Update of the Systematic Literature Review

Design and Validation of a Capability Measurement Instrument for DevOps Teams

The Prevent-Model: Human and Organizational Factors Fostering Engineering of Safe and Secure Robotic Systems

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