Agile Research

定义敏捷开发中的需求策略：一项设计科学研究

Defining Requirements Strategies in Agile: A Design Science Research Study

本研究通过设计科学方法，基于三个工业案例，探讨了敏捷开发中因需求策略不明确引发的挑战，并提出了定义需求策略的关键构建模块与指导方针。

Key Challenges with Agile Culture -- A Survey among Practitioners

Context: Within agile transformations, there are a lot of different challenges coming up. One very important but less considered and treated in research are cultural challenges. Although research shows that cultural clashes and general organizational resistance to change are part of the most significant agile adoption barriers. Objective: Thus, our objective is to tackle this field and come up with important contributions for further research. To this end, we want to identify challenges that arise from the interplay between agility and organizational culture. Method: This is done based on an i…

Autonomous agile teams: Challenges and future directions for research

According to the principles articulated in the agile manifesto, motivated and empowered software developers relying on technical excellence and simple designs, create business value by delivering working software to users at regular short intervals. These principles have spawned many practices. At the core of these practices is the idea of autonomous, self-managing, or self-organizing teams whose members work at a pace that sustains their creativity and productivity. This article summarizes the main challenges faced when implementing autonomous teams and the topics and research questions that …

Studying Attitudes and Social Norms in Agile Software Development

The purpose of this paper is to review research on attitudes and social norms and connect it to the agile software development context. Furthermore, I propose additional theories from social psychology (mainly the theory of planned behavior and using the degree of internalization of social norms) that would most certainly be useful for further sense-making of human factors-related research on agile teams.

混合办公遇上敏捷软件开发：一项系统性映射研究

Hybrid Work meets Agile Software Development: A Systematic Mapping Study

本研究针对混合办公与敏捷软件开发交叉领域研究现状不明的问题，通过系统性映射研究筛选12项基础研究，分析了现有研究的方法特征与不足，指出了未来研究方向。

What is Large in Large-Scale? A Taxonomy of Scale for Agile Software Development

Positive experience of agile development methods in smaller projects has created interest in the applicability of such methods in larger scale projects. However, there is a lack of conceptual clarity regarding what large-scale agile software development is. This inhibits effective collaboration and progress in the research area. In this paper, we suggest a taxonomy of scale for agile software development projects that has the potential to clarify what topics researchers are studying and ease discussion of research priorities.

Protocol and Tools for Conducting Agile Software Engineering Research in an Industrial-Academic Setting: A Preliminary Study

Conducting empirical research in software engineering industry is a process, and as such, it should be generalizable. The aim of this paper is to discuss how academic researchers may address some of the challenges they encounter during conducting empirical research in the software industry by means of a systematic and structured approach. The protocol developed in this paper should serve as a practical guide for researchers and help them with conducting empirical research in this complex environment.

第二届敏捷实践与研究研讨会：总结与研究呼吁

The 2nd Workshop on Agile Practice & Research: A Summary and Call For Research

本文总结了第二届敏捷实践与研究研讨会，探讨了理论、时间与转移三个研究与实践之间的差距，并提出了加强研究与实践协作的三个研究呼吁。

从教育到证据：面向AI集成敏捷开发的协作实践研究平台

From Education to Evidence: A Collaborative Practice Research Platform for AI-Integrated Agile Development

本文提出一个整合AI的敏捷教育平台，通过协作研究环境生成实践相关证据，提升敏捷开发中的研究及时性和可重用性。

Agile Modeling with the UML

This paper discusses a model-based approach to software development. It argues that an approach using models as central development artifact needs to be added to the portfolio of software engineering techniques, to further increase efficiency and flexibility of the development as well as quality and reusability of the results. Two major and strongly related techniques are identified and discussed: Test case modeling and an evolutionary approach to model transformation.

敏捷 Scrum 团队中团队自主性涌现的心理前因

Psychological Antecedents to Emergence of Team Autonomy in Agile Scrum Teams

该研究聚焦敏捷 Scrum 团队，考察关键心理因素如何推动团队自主性涌现，并进而促成软件组织的敏捷项目成功。

An empirical analysis of success factors in the adaption of the scaled agile framework -- first outcomes from an empirical study

Agile methodologies are used for improving productivity and quality of development originally created for small teams. However , now they are expanding to larger organizations, for which "scaled up" approaches have been proposed. This study presents the preliminary outcomes from a survey on the effects of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), which is considered the most used of such approaches. The apparent advantages and limitations are discussed along with the lines for future research.

Incorporating Agile with MDA Case Study: Online Polling System

Nowadays agile software development is used in greater extend but for small organizations only, whereas MDA is suitable for large organizations but yet not standardized. In this paper the pros and cons of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Extreme programming have been discussed. As both of them have some limitations and cannot be used in both large scale and small scale organizations a new architecture has been proposed. In this model it is tried to opt the advantages and important values to overcome the limitations of both the software development procedures. In support to the proposed arch…

Concerns and Limitations in Agile Software Development: A Survey with Paraguayan Companies

This year, the Agile Manifesto completes seventeen years and, throughout the world, companies and researchers seek to understand their adoption stage, as well as the benefits, barriers, and limitations of agile methods. Although we have some studies and questionnaire data at the global level, we know little about how the Paraguayan software community is adopting agile methods. The present work conducted a research to set up the current stage of adoption, initial concerns and barriers of implementation of agile methods in software development companies in Paraguay. An online survey was sent to …

Agile Software Development Method, A Comparative Review1

Although agile software development methods have caught the attention of software engineers and researchers worldwide, scientific research still remains quite scarce. The aim of this study is to order and make sense of the different agile approaches that have been proposed. This comparative review is performed from the standpoint of using the following features as the analytical perspectives: project management support, life-cycle coverage, type of practical guidance, adaptability in actual use, type of research objectives and existence of empirical evidence. The results show that agile softwa…

Fail Fast - Fail Often: Enhancing Agile Methodology using Dynamic Regression, Code Bisector and Code Quality in Continuous Integration (CI)

Agile practices are receiving considerable attention from industry as an alternative to traditional software development approaches. However, there are a number of challenges in combining Agile [2] with Test-driven development (TDD) [10] practices, cloud deployments, continuous integration (CI), non-stop performance, load, security and accessibly testing. From these challenges; Continuous Integration is a relatively an approach widely discussed and practiced in software testing. This paper describes an approach for improved Agile Methodology using Code Quality, Code Bisector and Dynamic Regres…

The Systems Approach to Change and the Agile Software Development Context

There is a diversity of models explaining organizational culture and how these complex aspects can be addressed in connection to organizational change efforts. This workshop paper claims that models already exist for dealing with the cultural change that an agile transition is in the software engineering context. Instead of realizing this again through agile success stories, and thus reinventing the wheel, it is argued that the research in the software engineering field should build on these models instead and investigate how/if they differ. Practitioners already work as the change agents desc…

Social Influence in Agile Requirements Engineering

Agile requirements engineering implies more complex communication patterns since even the developers are supposed to have direct contact with customers. With more face-to-face communication comes social-psychological factors influencing the requirements. Studies have pointed at the importance of negotiation training, but I argue that more basic human traits can be triggered in favor of the negotiator with the most knowledge of social influence research and practice. I suggest a plan of how research in social influence and requirements facilitation can be conducted, mostly through experimentati…

Measuring the Effect of CMMI Quality Standard on Agile Scrum Model

Agile development gets more appreciation from the market due to the flexible nature and more productivity. Among the Agile processes, Scrum gives better management of the processes, which are practiced in an organization. Though Scrum process model have several features and strengths but it still lacks in management and quality. This research deals with the improvement of Scrum processes for better management and to improve the quality of the software using the infusion of different practices from internationally renowned quality standards. Survey is used to validate the proposed framework. St…

Combining Agile with Traditional V Model for Enhancement of Maturity in Software Development

In the field of software engineering there are many new archetypes are introducing day to day Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of software development. Due to dynamic environment organizations are frequently exchanging their software constraint to meet their objectives. The propose research is a new approach by integrating the traditional V model and agile methodology to combining the strength of these models while minimizing their individual weakness.The fluctuating requirements of emerging a carried software system and accumulative cost of operational software are imposing researcher…

Managing layers of risk: Uncertainty in large development programs combining agile software development and traditional project management

How risks are managed implicitly and explicitly at multiple levels of agile projects has not been extensively studied and there is a need to investigate how risk management can be used in large agile projects. This is the objective of this exploratory study which investigates the following research question: How does a large software/hardware development project using agile practices manage uncertainty at project/subproject and work package levels?

串联敏捷软件开发中的知识节点

Connecting the Dots of Knowledge in Agile Software Development

该研究聚焦敏捷软件开发领域的知识管理问题，梳理了知识资源类型与管理挑战，提出效用最大化的潜在方案，且结论基于行业实证研究，为知识资源的价值挖掘提供参考。

Applying Normalization Process Theory to Explain Large-Scale Agile Transformations

Given the prevalence and effectiveness of agile methods at a team level, large organizations are now attempting to mimic this success at large scale by adopting large-scale methods such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Spotify, and Large Scale Scrum (LeSS). However, compared to insights on traditionally small scale methods, the extant literature provides sparse coverage on theories to examine large-scale agile transformations. In this article, we focus on the challenge of normalizing large scale agile transformations and apply Normalization Process Theory (NPT) to support theorize about this …

Agile Methods: Testing Challenges, Solutions & Tool Support

Agile development is conventional these days and with the passage of time software developers are rapidly moving from Waterfall to Agile development. Agile methods focus on delivering executable code quickly by increasing the responsiveness of software companies while decreasing development overhead and consider people as the strongest pillar of software development. As agile development overshadows Waterfall methodologies for software development, it comes up with some distinct challenges related to testing of such software. Our study is going to discuss the challenges this approach has stirr…

A Multi-dimensional Study of Requirements Changes in Agile Software Development Projects

Agile processes are now widely practiced by software engineering (SE) teams, and the agile manifesto claims that agile methods support responding to changes well. However, no study appears to have researched whether this is accurate in reality. Requirements changes (RCs) are inevitable in any software development environment, and we wanted to acquire a holistic picture of how RCs occur and are handled in agile SE teams in practice. We also wanted to know whether responding to changes is the only or a main reason for software teams to use agile in their projects. To do this we conducted a mixed…

A Versatile Dataset of Agile Open Source Software Projects

Agile software development is nowadays a widely adopted practise in both open-source and industrial software projects. Agile teams typically heavily rely on issue management tools to document new issues and keep track of outstanding ones, in addition to storing their technical details, effort estimates, assignment to developers, and more. Previous work utilised the historical information stored in issue management systems for various purposes; however, when researchers make their empirical data public, it is usually relevant solely to the study's objective. In this paper, we present a more hol…

Agile Software Development Methods: Review and Analysis

Agile - denoting "the quality of being agile, readiness for motion, nimbleness, activity, dexterity in motion" - software development methods are attempting to offer an answer to the eager business community asking for lighter weight along with faster and nimbler software development processes. This is especially the case with the rapidly growing and volatile Internet software industry as well as for the emerging mobile application environment. The new agile methods have evoked substantial amount of literature and debates. However, academic research on the subject is still scarce, as most of e…

Safety-Critical Systems and Agile Development: A Mapping Study

In the last decades, agile methods had a huge impact on how software is developed. In many cases, this has led to significant benefits, such as quality and speed of software deliveries to customers. However, safety-critical systems have widely been dismissed from benefiting from agile methods. Products that include safety critical aspects are therefore faced with a situation in which the development of safety-critical parts can significantly limit the potential speed-up through agile methods, for the full product, but also in the non-safety critical parts. For such products, the ability to dev…

Toward the Integration of Traditional and Agile Approaches

The agile approach uses continuous delivery, instead of distinct procedure, to work closer with customers and to respond faster requirement changes. All of these are against the traditional plan driven approach. Due to agile method's characteristics and its success in the real world practices, a number of discussions regarding the differences between agile and traditional approaches emerged recently and many studies intended to integrate both methods to synthesize the benefits from these two sides. However, this type of research often concludes from observations of a development activity or su…

A Systematic Mapping Study on Security in Agile Requirements Engineering

[Background] The rapidly changing business environments in which many companies operate is challenging traditional Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches. This gave rise to agile approaches for RE. Security, at the same time, is an essential non-functional requirement that still tends to be difficult to address in agile development contexts. Given the fuzzy notion of "agile" in context of RE and the difficulties of appropriately handling security requirements, the overall understanding of how to handle security requirements in agile RE is still vague. [Objective] Our goal is to characterize …

A Study of an Agile Methodology with Scrum Approach to the Filipino Company-Sponsored I.T. Capstone Program

Purpose - The research aims to show the relevance of company client sponsored student projects in the University of Asia and the Pacific Information Technology (UA&P IT) Capstone Program through the use ofan Agile Methodology with Scrum Approach. Method - The modified program is employed on two batches with content analysis and survey results as benchmarks. Results - Surveys at the end of the sprints for both clients and students revealed that the length of the sprint was a critical factor in the development of the information system, and that students learned from addressing additional challe…

Testing Agile Requirements Models

This paper discusses a model-based approach to validate software requirements in agile development processes by simulation and in particular automated testing. The use of models as central development artifact needs to be added to the portfolio of software engineering techniques, to further increase efficiency and flexibility of the development beginning already early in the requirements definition phase. Testing requirements are some of the most important techniques to give feedback and to increase the quality of the result. Therefore testing of artifacts should be introduced as early as poss…

Human Factors in Agile Software Development

Through our four years experiments on students' Scrum based agile software development (ASD) process, we have gained deep understanding into the human factors of agile methodology. We designed an agile project management tool - the HASE collaboration development platform to support more than 400 students self-organized into 80 teams to practice ASD. In this thesis, Based on our experiments, simulations and analysis, we contributed a series of solutions and insights in this researches, including 1) a Goal Net based method to enhance goal and requirement management for ASD process, 2) a novel Si…

敏捷软件开发的关键成功因素框架

A Framework of Critical Success Factors for Agile Software Development

本文通过分析53项研究，识别出敏捷项目中的21个关键成功因素，分为组织、人员、技术、过程和项目五大类，强调人员和过程因素的重要性，提出理论框架指导未来研究。

The perceived effects of group developmental psychology training on agile software development teams

Research has shown that the maturity of small workgroups from a psychological perspective is intimately connected to team agility. We, therefore, tested if agile team members appreciated group development psychology training. Our results show that the participating teams seem to have a very positive view of group development training and state that they now have a new way of thinking about teamwork and new tools to deal with team-related problems. We, therefore, see huge potential in training agile teams in group development psychology since the positive effects might span over the entire soft…

敏捷软件开发中的文档实践：一项系统文献综述

Documentation Practices in Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

本文通过系统文献综述分析了2010至2021年间74项敏捷文档研究，识别出九个关键文档因素，发现现有敏捷文档工具与技术不同步、各自解决不同挑战，为后续研究和实践提供了系统理解。

如何衡量敏捷软件开发中的绩效？一项混合方法研究

How to Measure Performance in Agile Software Development? A Mixed-Method Study

本研究通过快速文献综述与单案例焦点小组的混合方法，明确敏捷软件开发绩效指标应用的挑战，构建常用指标库并给出实践与研究启示，以提升指标应用成功率。

Mining for Process Improvements: Analyzing Software Repositories in Agile Retrospectives

Software Repositories contain knowledge on how software engineering teams work, communicate, and collaborate. It can be used to develop a data-informed view of a team's development process, which in turn can be employed for process improvement initiatives. In modern, Agile development methods, process improvement takes place in Retrospective meetings, in which the last development iteration is discussed. However, previously proposed activities that take place in these meetings often do not rely on project data, instead depending solely on the perceptions of team members. We propose new Retrosp…

How to Integrate Security Compliance Requirements with Agile Software Engineering at Scale?

Integrating security into agile software development is an open issue for research and practice. Especially in strongly regulated industries, complexity increases not only when scaling agile practices but also when aiming for compliance with security standards. To achieve security compliance in a large-scale agile context, we developed S2C-SAFe: An extension of the Scaled Agile Framework that is compliant to the security standard IEC~62443-4-1 for secure product development. In this paper, we present the framework and its evaluation by agile and security experts within Siemens' large-scale pro…

What Makes Effective Leadership in Agile Software Development Teams?

Effective leadership is one of the key drivers of business and project success, and one of the most active areas of management research. But how does leadership work in agile software development, which emphasizes self-management and self-organization and marginalizes traditional leadership roles? To find out, this study examines agile leadership from the perspective of thirteen professionals who identify as agile leaders, in different roles, at ten different software development companies of varying sizes. Data from semi-structured interviews reveals that leadership: (1) is dynamically shared…

Architectural Challenges in Migrating Plan-driven Projects to Agile

Software development has steadily embraced agile software development methodology/method (ASDM) and has been moving away from the plan driven software development methodology (PDM) approaches like waterfall. Given the iterative nature of agile development, the integration of software architecture into the agile way has become challenging. This research identifies the challenges of having a robust architecture in projects already executed by plan driven methods and new projects likewise by conducting a literature review and a case study analysis. The ensuing analysis finds that there are three …

An Empirical Analysis of Task Allocation in Scrum-based Agile Programming

Agile Software Development (ASD) methodology has become widely used in the industry. Understanding the challenges facing software engineering students is important to designing effective training methods to equip students with proper skills required for effectively using the ASD techniques. Existing empirical research mostly focused on eXtreme Programming (XP) based ASD methodologies. There is a lack of empirical studies about Scrum-based ASD programming which has become the most popular agile methodology among industry practitioners. In this paper, we present empirical findings regarding the …

预测敏捷项目成功：关键的少数因素

Predicting Agile Success: The Critical Few Factors

本研究针对敏捷项目成功率低的问题，采用实证主义方法，用SmartPLS的PLS-SEM分析数据，识别出促成敏捷项目成功的少数关键因素，开发了可评估项目成功的新型模型。

Requirements engineering in global scaled agile software development environment: a multi-vocal literature review protocol

Context: Requirements engineering in global scaled agile software development and the planning phase for a multi-vocal literature review. Objective: Develop a protocol to specify the plan which will be followed to conduct a multi-vocal literature review study on requirements engineering in global scaled agile software development. Method: Kitchenham and Charters (2007), and Garousi et al. (2019) guidelines were followed to develop a protocol for multi-vocal literature review. Result: A validated protocol to conduct a multi-vocal literature review. Conclusion: The review protocol consist of fiv…

AQUA：一种开发量子退火应用的敏捷过程

AQUA: an Agile Process to Develop Quantum Annealing Applications

AQUA是一种通过产业-学术合作开发的敏捷过程，旨在解决QUBO问题中的数学复杂性和硬件限制，通过四个阶段的敏捷生命周期提供系统化的量子退火工程框架。

汽车行业敏捷方法探索：优势、挑战与机遇

An Exploration of Agile Methods in the Automotive Industry: Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities

本文通过文献综述和案例研究，探讨了汽车行业采用敏捷方法的优势（如协作改善、上市加快）与挑战（如安全合规、文化阻力），旨在理解其对汽车软件开发未来的影响。

How do Agile Software Startups deal with uncertainties by Covid-19 pandemic?

The dissipation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has already taken on pandemic proportions, affecting over 100 countries in a couple of weeks. The evolution of the disease and its economic impact is highly uncertain, which brings challenges for newly created software companies. Software startups are companies that create innovative software products and services in a dynamic and fast-growing market. Agile Software Methods aims to enable startups in responding to uncertainty caused by Covid-19. This paper investigates the impact of Covid-19 in a real software star…

State of the Art of Agile Governance: A Systematic Review

Context: Agility at the business level requires Information Technology (IT) environment flexible and customizable, as well as effective and responsive governance in order to deliver value faster, better, and cheaper to the business. Objective: To understand better this context, our paper seeks to investigate how the domain of agile governance has evolved, as well as to derive implications for research and practice. Method: We conducted a systematic review about the state of art of the agile governance up to and including 2013. Our search strategy identified 1992 studies in 10 databases, of whi…

Team performance and large scale agile software development

Software development is a team work and largely dependent on open social interaction and continuous learning of individuals. Drawing on well established theoretical concepts proposed by social psychology and organizational science disciplines, we develop a theoretical framework proposing that team climate has a significant influence on team learning and ultimately affects team performance. Our study consists of two goals. First to understand the preconditions of team learning and second to investigate the relationship between team learning, psychological safety, and team performance in large s…

Significance of the teamwork in agile software engineering

A Software Engineering project depends significantly on team performance, as does any activity that involves human interaction. In the last years, the traditional perspective on software development is changing and agile methods have received considerable attention. Among other attributes, the ageists claim that fostering creativity is one of the keys to response to common problems and challenges of software development today. The development of new software products requires the generation of novel and useful ideas. It is a conceptual framework introduced in the Agile Manifesto in 2001. This …

Group development and group maturity when building agile teams: A qualitative and quantitative investigation at eight large companies

The agile approach to projects focuses more on close-knit teams than traditional waterfall projects, which means that aspects of group maturity become even more important. This psychological aspect is not much researched in connection to the building of an "agile team." The purpose of this study is to investigate how building agile teams is connected to a group development model taken from social psychology. We conducted ten semi-structured interviews with coaches, Scrum Masters, and managers responsible for the agile process from seven different companies, and collected survey data from 66 gr…

Agile Test-based Modeling

Model driven architecture (MDA) concentrates on the use of models during software development. An approach using models as the central development artifact is more abstract, more compact and thus more effective and probably also less error prone. Although the ideas of MDA exist already for years, there is still much to improve in the development process as well as the underlying techniques and tools. Therefore, this paper is a follow up on, reexamining und updating the statements made there. Here two major and strongly related techniques are identified and discussed: Test case modeling and an …

Applying Agile Requirements Engineering Approach for Re-engineering & Changes in existing Brownfield Adaptive Systems

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a key activity in the development of software systems and is concerned with the identification of the goals of stakeholders and their elaboration into precise statements of desired services and behavior. The research describes an Agile Requirements Engineering approach for re-engineering & changes in existing Brownfield adaptive system. The approach has few modifications that can be used as a part of SCRUM development process for re-engineering & changes. The approach illustrates the re-engineering & changes requirements through introduction of GAP analysis & r…

探索敏捷软件开发中的数据管理挑战与解决方案：文献综述与从业者调查

Exploring Data Management Challenges and Solutions in Agile Software Development: A Literature Review and Practitioner Survey

本文通过系统文献综述（45项研究）与从业者调查（32位从业者）的混合方法，探索敏捷软件开发中的数据管理挑战及解决方案，为研究与实践提供见解并强调有效数据管理实践的重要性。