What Makes Agile Software Development Agile?
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2022-09-01Autor
Kuhrmann, Marco
Tell, Paolo
Hebig, Regina
Klünder, Jil
Münch, Jürgen
Linssen, Oliver
Pfahl, Dietmar
Felderer, Michael
Prause, Christian R.
MacDonell, Stephen G.
Nakatumba Nabende, Joyce
Raffo, David
Beecham, Sarah
Tüzün, Eray
López Herrera, Gustavo
Paez, Nicolas
Fontdevila, Diego
Licorish, Sherlock A.
Küpper, Steffen
Ruhe, Günther
Knauss, Eric
Özcan Top, Özden
Clarke, Paul
McCaffery, Fergal
Genero Bocco, Marcela Fabiana
Vizcaino, Aurora
Piattini, Mario
Kalinowski, Marcos
Conte, Tayana
Prikladnicki, Rafael
Krusche, Stephan
Coşkunçay, Ahmet
Scott, Ezequiel
Calefato, Fabio
Pimonova, Svetlana
Pfeiffer, Rolf Helge
Schultz, Ulrik Pagh
Heldal, Rogardt
Fazal Baqaie, Masud
Anslow, Craig
Anslow, Craig
Nayebi, Maleknaz
Schneider, Kurt
Sauer, Stefan
Winkler, Dietmar
Biffl, Stefan
Bastarrica, Maria Cecilia
Richardson, Ita
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Together with many success stories, promises such as the increase in production speed and the improvement in stakeholders’ collaboration have contributed to making agile a transformation in the software industry in which many companies want to take part. However, driven either by a natural and expected evolution or by contextual factors that challenge the adoption of agile methods as prescribed by their creator(s), software processes in practice mutate into hybrids over time. Are these still agile? In this article, we investigate the question: what makes a software development method agile? We present an empirical study grounded in a large-scale international survey that aims to identify software development methods and practices that improve or tame agility. Based on 556 data points, we analyze the perceived degree of agility in the implementation of standard project disciplines and its relation to used development methods and practices. Our findings suggest that only a small number of participants operate their projects in a purely traditional or agile manner (under 15 percent). That said, most project disciplines and most practices show a clear trend towards increasing degrees of agility. Compared to the methods used to develop software, the selection of practices has a stronger effect on the degree of agility of a given discipline. Finally, there are no methods or practices that explicitly guarantee or prevent agility. We conclude that agility cannot be defined solely at the process level. Additional factors need to be taken into account when trying to implement or improve agility in a software company. Finally, we discuss the field of software process-related research in the light of our findings and present a roadmap for future research.