Paper Info
Title
Perceptions of Agility and Collaboration in Software Development Practice
Abstract
Agility is a facet of software development attracting increasing interest. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the value of agility in practice. Data collected from senior development/project managers in 62 organizations is used to investigate perceptions related to agile development. Specifically, the perceptions tested relate to (a) belief in agile values and principles, and (b) value of agile principles within current development and organizational practice. These perceptions are then examined in the context of current practice in order to test perceptions against behavior and understand the valued aspects of agile practice that are implicit in software development today. The findings suggest that agile values and principles related to communication and collaboration, and team involvement are perceived as important and are being practiced widely. On the other hand, principles related to reflection and frequent delivery of software are rated high to medium in importance but its full adoption in practice is limited. The principle relating to managing changing requirements is perceived as significant but agile practices relating to this principle are not being implemented in practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/HICSS.2006.378
System Sciences, 2006. HICSS '06. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference
Keywords
DocType
Volume
senior development,agile principle,current development,current practice,full adoption,agile value,frequent delivery,organizational practice,software development,software development practice,agile practice,documentation,programming,collaborative software,software engineering,agile development,engineering management,data collection
Conference
1
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1605
0-7695-2507-5
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chaitali Patel1643.53
Mark Lycett230534.06
Robert D. Macredie388459.67
Sergio de Cesare421530.04