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An Empirical Study into Social Success Factors for Agile Software Development

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Evelyn van Kelle,

Joost Visser,

Aske Plaat,

Per van der WijstAuthors Info & Claims

CHASE '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

Pages 77 - 80

https://doi.org/10.1109/CHASE.2015.24

Published: 18 May 2015 Publication History

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Though many warn that Agile at larger scale is problematic or at least more challenging than in smaller projects, Agile software development seems to become the norm, also for large and complex projects. Based on literature and qualitative interviews, we constructed a conceptual model of social factors that may be of influence on the success of software development projects in general, and of Agile projects in particular. We also included project size as a candidate success factor. We tested the model on a set of 40 projects from 19 Dutch organizations, comprising a total of 141 project members, Scrum Masters and product owners. We found that project size does not determine Agile project success. Rather, value congruence, degree of adoption of Agile practices, and transformational leadership proved to be the most important predictors for Agile project success.

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CHASE '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

May 2015

124 pages

ISBN:9781467370318

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IEEE Computer Society

United States

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Published: 18 May 2015

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Barros LTam CVarajão J(2024)Agile software development projects–Unveiling the human-related critical success factorsInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107432170:COnline publication date: 1-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107432
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