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A Survey-based Analysis of Agile Adoption on Performances of IT Organizations

  • Ghani, Imran (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) ;
  • Bello, Mannir (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) ;
  • Bagiwa, Idris Lawal (Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
  • Received : 2015.05.26
  • Accepted : 2015.10.02
  • Published : 2015.10.31
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Abstract

Numerous IT organizations and companies around the world aspire to improve the efficiency and general standard of their software development. The IT organizations want to seize the opportunities and take advantages of new development processes and methodologies. These advantages include higher customers' satisfaction and better software quality among many. In order to achieve them, different agile software methodologies such as scrum, Feature driven development, eXtremeProgramming (XP), Dynamic system development method, Kanban and others have been frequently adopted by IT organizations across the world. Several studies have shown that agile software development methods are effective in a lot of settings. This study, in which 40 agile practitioners from Malaysia participated, additionally confirms the effectiveness of agile development methods. Furthermore, this paper presents some of the critical barriers not well-known by IT-organizations. The results of this analysis can be used to guide IT organization from the obstacles they may face while adopting agile in their environments.

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