[AISWorld] Summary of responses on: How to find out whether agile principles are followed up or not:

Thu Dec 6 04:12:40 EST 2012

Dear colleagues,

Below find additional references to my request that I have received 
after posting the initial reference list. Thanks for your engagement, it 
is much appreciated.

Regards/Ilia

In chapter 9 in the book "Taxén, L. (Ed.) (2011). The System Anatomy --
Enabling Agile Project Management. Lund: Studentlitteratur. ISBN
9789144070742" (https://www.studentlitteratur.se/#produkt/294/4883/)
Erik Schumann writes about "How Teams Become More Motivated and
Effective When Working with Anatomies"

Juhani Iivari,Netta Iivari.The relationship between organizational culture and the deployment of agile methods. Information and Software Technology 53 (2011) 509--520.

The closest to a questionnaire that already exists is the "Agile 
Karlskrona Test" by Mark Seuffert. It's a questionnaire that aims to 
determine how far a development team is from waterfall, on their way to 
agile:
http://www.mayberg.se/archive/Agile_Karlskrona_Test.pdf

A more helpful reference is the following:
*Barry Boehm and Richard Turner. 2003. Observations on Balancing 
Discipline and Agility. In/Proceedings of the Conference on Agile 
Development/ (ADC '03). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 32-.*
 > It aims to determine the home ground of a project. Is a project more 
inclined to traditional development, or more so to agile development, 
dependent on its context.

Following paper:
*Fergal Mc Caffery, Philip S. Taylor, and Gerry Coleman. 2007. Adept: A 
Unified Assessment Method for Small Software Companies. /IEEE 
Softw./ 24, 1 (January 2007), 24-31. DOI=10.1109/MS.2007.3 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MS.2007.3*
 > This paper builds on the paper by Boehm and Turner. It aims to 
identify risks within projects by using the home ground defined by Boehm 
and Turner.

The following papers by Asif Qumer and Brian Henderson-Sellers are very 
interesting. They developed an analytical framework, 4-DAT 
(4-Dimensional Analytical Tool) for the purpose of analysis and 
comparison of agile methods. The four different dimensions utilized are: 
method scope characterization, agile characterization, agile values 
(cfr. agile manifesto) characterization, and software process 
characterization. They also build on the conceptual framework of Kieran 
Conboy and Brian Fitzgerald and apply their own 4-DAT to six well-known 
agile methods and two traditional methods, for comparison.

*A. Qumer and B. Henderson-Sellers, 2007, Measuring Agility and 
Adoptability of Agile Methods: A 4-Dimensional Analytical Tool, IADIS 
International Conference of Applied Computing, *
*> http://www.iadis.net/dl/final_uploads/200601C022.pdf*

*A. Qumer and B. Henderson-Sellers. 2008. An evaluation of the degree of 
agility in six agile methods and its applicability for method 
engineering. /Inf. Softw. Technol./ 50, 4 (March 2008), 280-295. 
DOI=10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.002 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.002*

*A. Qumer, B. Henderson-Sellers, A framework to support the evaluation, adoption and improvement of agile methods in practice, Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 81, Issue 11, November 2008, Pages 1899-1919, ISSN 0164-1212, 10.1016/j.jss.2007.12.806.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121208000113)
Keywords: Agile methodologies; Framework; Transition to agile; Industry case studies*

The following papers by Ahmed Sidky et al, are about the development of 
an agile adoption framework. However he has some very interesting ideas 
in which he identifies five different levels of agility depending on the 
practices employed by companies/projects. He developed a reference 
document with a very extensive questionnaire for managers, developers, 
project managers and I believe customers to identify which level a 
company/project is situated on. Besides that he also identifies 
'inhibiting factors' that limit the highest possible agile level.
Papers of his are:
*
*
*Ahmed Sidky, James Arthur and Shawn Brother, A disciplined Approach to 
adopting agile practices: the agile adoption framework, Innovations in 
systems and software engineering, Volume 3 Number 3 (2007)*
*http://www.springerlink.com/content/605377432l580124/*
*
*
Slaughter, S., Levine, L., Baskerville, R., Pries-Heje, J., Ramesh, 
B.(2006)Aligning software processes with strategy. /Management 
Information Systems Quarterly 30 /(4), 891-918.

Baskerville, R., Pries-Heje, J., Levine, L., & Ramesh, B.(2004). The 
high speed balancing game: How software companies cope with Internet 
Speed. /Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems16/, 11-54.

Baskerville, R., Levine, L., Pries-Heje, J., Ramesh, B., &Slaughter, S. 
(2003),Is Internet-speed software development different? /IEEE Software 
20 /(6), Nov-Dec, 70-77.

Baskerville, R., Levine, L., Pries-Heje, J., Ramesh, B., &Slaughter, S. 
(2001)How Internet software companies negotiate quality. /IEEE Computer 
34/ (5), May 2001, 51-57.

Levine, L., Baskerville, R., Loveland Link, J.L., Pries-Heje, J., 
Ramesh, B., & Slaughter, S., (2002).Discovery colloquium: Quality 
software development @ Internet speed. (SEI Technical Report 
CMU/SEI-2002-TR-020) Pittsburgh, PA.; Software Engineering Institute.

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tr020.cfm?DCSext.abstractsource=SearchResults

On 2012-12-04 11:38, Ilia Bider wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I have received quite a number of responses on my request (see the 
> original request at the end of this message). I, and my students 
> greatly appreciate your engagement. Below find a list of references 
> compiled from the responses received so far. If there are more 
> responses coming, I will post an extended list later.
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Ilia
> -----------------------------
> References:
>
> IJKM has published several articles looking at KM in software 
> development/methodologies, also has articles applying use cases to KM, 
> patterns to KM, and other techniques to KM project development.  Take 
> a look at the past articles at: 
> http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-knowledge-management-ijkm/1083 
>
>
> The ISJ's latest issue (22-6) has a couple of papers on Agile Methods.
>
> Sue Kong, Julie E. Kendall, Kenneth E. Kendall. Project contexts and 
> use of agile software development methodology in practice: a case 
> study. (Business case study).  Journal of Academy of Business and 
> Economics 12(2), 2012, 1-15
>
> Kendall, J. E. and Kendall, K. E. "Agile Methodologies and the Lone 
> Systems Analyst: When Individual Creativity and Organizational Goals 
> Collide in the Global IT Environment," /Journal of Individual 
> Employment Rights/, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2005, pp. 333-347.
>
> Kendall, J.E., Kendall, K.E., and Kong, S. "Improving Quality Through 
> The Use Of Agile Methods in Systems Development: People and Values in 
> the Quest for Quality,"  in /Measuring Information Systems Delivery 
> Quality,/ edited by E. W. Duggan & H. Reichgelt. Hershey, PA: Idea 
> Group Publishing, Chapter IX, 2006, pp, 201-222.
>
> Conboy, K., and Fitzgerald, B. 2004. Toward a Conceptual Framework of 
> Agile Methods. C. Zannier, H. Erdogmus, and L. Lindstrom (eds.), (Vol. 
> 3134) XP/Agile Universe. 105--116.
>
> Babb, J. J. and Nørbjerg, J. (2010). A Model for Reflective Learning 
> in Small Shop Agile Development. /Engaged Scandinavian Research. 
> Selected Papers of the Information Systems Research Seminar in 
> Scandinavia/, J. Molka-Danielsen, H. W. Nicolajsen and J. S. Persson. 
> Molde, Norway, tapir Akademisk Forlag. 1*: *23-38.
>
> And what does "really agile" mean: XP by the book or the principles 
> laid out in; e.g. Cockburn's work. Look for papers by Heeager, L. She 
> has explored (thesis work) how teams combine agile and "traditional" 
> methods. She develops a "mesh" model in her thesis but I don't know if 
> she has published it yet.
>
> Tingling, P. Saeed, A. (2007) "Extreme Programming in Action -- A 
> Longitudinal Case Study". In Proceedings of the HCI International 
> Conference, Beijing, China.
>
>
> Diane Strode. The agile methods: An analytical comparison of five 
> agile methods and an investigation of their target environment. MS 
> thesis, 2005: http://hdl.handle.net/10179/515. See also other research 
> works on https://sites.google.com/site/dianestrodepublic/
>
>
> P.S.: Beside the references I got some suggestions and advices, which  
> were also much appreciated by our team.
>
>
> On 2012-12-02 09:24, Ilia Bider wrote:
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> A group of students of mine are starting a project with the goal of 
>> investigating "Knowledge transformation/management in the agile 
>> software development". The project includes field/case studies of the 
>> agile development teams.
>>
>> The first problem to solve in the project is how to choose the right 
>> teams, i.e. how to differentiate the teams that are really agile from 
>> those who just state/believe that they are agile. As agile became a 
>> buzz/fashion word, we think that there should be plenty of teams of 
>> the second class :-).
>>
>> We do not suppose that there are ready made methods to make such a 
>> differentiation, and will be working on a questionnaire based on the 
>> agile manifesto http://agilemanifesto.org/. However, if somebody 
>> knows any work, even if it is just MS/BS thesis, devoted to this 
>> particular task, I and my students would appreciate getting 
>> references to such works very much.
>>
>> The study itself concern knowledge management in the agile 
>> development process. If you can point out any literature related to 
>> this topic, we would appreciate it as well. For now the project is 
>> planned according to the ideas presented at GTSE workshop 
>> http://bit.ly/V9750J see slides: http://bit.ly/QXjynC and two pages 
>> position paper http://bit.ly/PGSfNG.
>>
>> As usual the summary of responses will be send to the list.
>>
>> Many thanks and best regards
>>
>> -- Ilia
>> ===============================================
>> Dr. Ilia Bider
>> Process- och systemutvecklingskonsult at ibissoft.se
>> Följ oss på LinkedIn http://linkd.in/xpqlqa
>> ilia at ibissoft.se        +46 70 942 78 38
>> Lektor & Forskare at DSV.su.se
>> ilia at dsv.su.se
>> Preparing for the era of cloud computing http://slidesha.re/LOTFSZ
>>
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> ilia at ibissoft.se         +46 70 942 78 38
> Lektor & Forskare at DSV.su.se
> ilia at dsv.su.se
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Följ oss på LinkedIn http://linkd.in/xpqlqa
ilia at ibissoft.se        +46 70 942 78 38
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