TY - JOUR
T1 - The Maturation of Agile Software Development Principles and Practice: Observations on Successive Industrial Studies in 2010 and 2012
AU - Bustard, David
AU - Wilkie, George
AU - Greer, Des
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The agile model of software development has been mainstream for several years, and is now in a phase where its principles and practices are maturing. The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of an industry survey aimed at understanding how maturation is progressing. The survey was taken across 40 software development companies in Northern Ireland at the beginning of 2012. The paper describes the design of the survey and examines maturity by comparing the results obtained in 2012 with those from a study of agile adoption in the same region in 2010. Both surveys aimed to achieve comprehensive coverage of a single area rather than rely on a voluntary sample. The main outcome from the work is a collection of ‘insights’ into the nature and practice of agile development, the main two of which are reported in this paper.
AB - The agile model of software development has been mainstream for several years, and is now in a phase where its principles and practices are maturing. The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of an industry survey aimed at understanding how maturation is progressing. The survey was taken across 40 software development companies in Northern Ireland at the beginning of 2012. The paper describes the design of the survey and examines maturity by comparing the results obtained in 2012 with those from a study of agile adoption in the same region in 2010. Both surveys aimed to achieve comprehensive coverage of a single area rather than rely on a voluntary sample. The main outcome from the work is a collection of ‘insights’ into the nature and practice of agile development, the main two of which are reported in this paper.
U2 - 10.1109/ECBS.2013.11
DO - 10.1109/ECBS.2013.11
M3 - Article
SP - 139
EP - 146
JO - Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Engineering of Computer Based Systems 2013
JF - Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Engineering of Computer Based Systems 2013
ER -