Agile methodologies in teams with highly creative and autonomous members
Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma, Alberto Accomazzi, Michael J. Kurtz, Edwin Henneken, Carolyn S. Grant, Donna M. Thompson, Roman Chyla, Stephen McDonald, Golnaz Shapurian… 展开作者
Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma, Alberto Accomazzi, Michael J. Kurtz, Edwin Henneken, Carolyn S. Grant, Donna M. Thompson, Roman Chyla, Stephen McDonald, Golnaz Shapurian, Timothy W. Hostetler, Matthew R. Templeton, Kelly E. Lockhart, Kris Bukovi
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The Agile manifesto encourages us to value individuals and interactions over processes and tools, while Scrum, the most adopted Agile development methodology, is essentially based on roles, events, artifacts, and the rules that bind them together (i.e., processes). Moreover, it is generally proclaimed that whenever a Scrum project does not succeed, the reason is because Scrum was not implemented correctly and not because Scrum may have its own flaws. This grants irrefutability to the methodology, discouraging deviations to fit the actual needs and peculiarities of the developers. In particular, the members of the NASA ADS team are highly creative and autonomous whose motivation can be affected if their freedom is too strongly constrained. We present our experience following Agile principles, reusing certain Scrum elements and seeking the satisfaction of the team members, while rapidly reacting/keeping the project in line with our stakeholders expectations.
Protocol for a Systematic Mapping of the Literature, which aims to identify and classify the estimations techniques used in software development agile methodologies based on the results found, and to compare their estimation accuracies against those obtained in traditional software development methodologies.
The process of contracting software factories within the scope of the Federal Public Administration (APF, in Portuguese) in Brazil has undergone some changes due to legislative alterations and a model has been proposed to improve the rendering of services regarding delivering results. Software factory contracts based on predictive processes and on the metrics of Function Points are the target of criticisms and have issues in achieving results, as verified in previous research. The initial objective of the study now proposed will be to define a process model for formulating metrics that can be …
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.
Context: User-Centered Design and Agile methodologies focus on human issues. Nevertheless, agile methodologies focus on contact with contracting customers and generating value for them. Usually, the communication between end users and the agile team is mediated by customers. However, they do not know the problems end users face in their routines. Hence, UX issues are typically identified only after the implementation, during user testing and validation. Objective: Aiming to improve the understanding and definition of the problem in agile projects, this research investigates the practices and d…
The perceptions and attitudes of developers impact how software projects are run and which development practices are employed in development teams. Recent agile methodologies have taken this into account, focusing on collaboration and shared team culture. In this research, we investigate the perceptions of agile development practices and their usage in Scrum software development teams. Although perceptions collected through surveys of 42 participating students did not evolve significantly over time, our analyses show that the Scrum role significantly impacted participants' views of employed de…
Between Policy and Practice: GenAI Adoption in Agile Software Development Teams
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover（汉诺威应用科学与艺术大学）；University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer（埃姆登/莱尔应用科学大学）；Bagilstein GmbH（巴吉尔斯坦有限公司）；IU International University（IU国际大学）；Volkswagen AG（大众汽车股份公司）
Agile methodologies have become increasingly popular in recent years. Due to its inherent nature, agile methodologies involve stakeholders with a wide range of expertise and require interaction between them, relying on collaboration and customer involvement. Hence, agile methodologies encourage collaboration between all team members so that more efficient and effective processes are maintained. Generating requirements can be challenging, as it requires the participation of multiple stakeholders who describe various aspects of the project and possess a shared understanding of essential concepts…
This Innovative Practice Full Paper presents our learnings of the process to perform a Master of Science class with eduScrum integrating real world problems as projects. We prepared, performed, and evaluated an agile educational concept for the new Master of Science program Digital Transformation organized and provided by the department of business computing at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts - Hochschule Hannover in Germany. The course deals with innovative methodologies of agile project management and is attended by 25 students. We performed the class due the summer term in 2019 …
Traditional methods for performance appraisal are not suitable for agile fast-paced software companies. This has been a realization in the software industry since the early adoption of agile methodologies. Nonetheless, software companies are still struggling to find a practical solution that fits the highly dynamic nature of their teams. In particular, high-growth companies, scaleups, need to be creative at how they approach performance appraisals. In this talk, we introduce automated review dashboards to support a seamless appraisal process and continuous visibility of software engineers' per…
Software has been developed for knowledge discovery, prediction and management for over 30 years. However, there are still unresolved pain points when using existing project development and artifact management methodologies. Historically, there has been a lack of applicable methodologies. Further, methodologies that have been applied, such as Agile, have several limitations including scientific unfalsifiability that reduce their applicability. Evident, a development methodology rooted in the philosophy of logical reasoning and EKB, a knowledge base topology, are proposed. Many pain points in d…
In the past 10 years, several researches studied video game development process who proposed approaches to improve the way how games are developed. These approaches usually adopt agile methodologies because of claims that traditional practices and the waterfall process are gone. However, are the "old days" really gone in the game industry? In this paper, we present a survey of software engineering processes in video game industry from postmortem project analyses. We analyzed 20 postmortems from Gamasutra Portal. We extracted their processes and modelled them through using the Business Process …
The software development industry has been evolving with new development standards and service delivery models. Agile methodologies have reached their completion with DevOps, thereby increasing the quality of the software and creating greater speed in delivery. However, a gap regarding the formalization of its adoption and implementation doubts became relevant. My hypothesis is that, by systematizing the introduction of DevOps into the software development process and defining the function of the members of the DevOps team members, may well make it quicker to implement this process, thus reduc…
The number of companies opting for remote working has been increasing over the years, and Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, were adapted to mitigate the challenges caused by the distributed teams. However, the COVID-19 pandemic imposed a fully working from home context, which has never existed before. This paper investigation a two-phased Multi-Method study. In the first phase, we uncover how working from home impacted Scrum practitioners through a qualitative survey. Then, in the second phase, we propose a theoretical model that we test and generalize using Partial Least Squares - Structura…
Agentsway -- Software Development Methodology for AI Agents-based Teams
Old Dominion University（旧 Dominion 大学）；Florida International University（佛罗里达国际大学）；University of Sri Jayewardenepura（Sri Jayewardenepura 大学）；Deloitte & Touche LLP；AnaletIQ；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；University of Colombo（科伦坡大学）
Context: Interest in software engineering (SE) methodologies and tools has been complemented in recent years by research efforts oriented towards understanding the human processes involved in software development. This shift has been imperative given reports of inadequately performing teams and the consequent growing emphasis on individuals and team relations in contemporary SE methods. Objective: While software repositories have frequently been studied with a view to explaining such human processes, research has tended to use primarily quantitative analysis approaches. There is concern, howev…
