doi: 10.4304/jsw.9.7.1666-1678
Exploring Facilitators of Transition and Adoption to Agile Methods: A Grounded Theory Study
- Department of Software Engineering and Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Malaysia
Abstract
Nowadays, changing development approach from traditional to Agile methods has been considered as a strategic decision for achieving Agile values by most software companies and organizations. Due to its nature, moving to Agile software development and adapting to Agile methods need a long time and enough effort. Thus, organizations are faced with a lot of challenges during the transition and adoption process. Providing facilitators can make transition process easier and faster. Conducting a Grounded Theory study on Agile transformation process, involving 33 Agile experts across 13 different countries showed that Agile transition and adoption needs to be supported by several facilitators. Thus, the main contribution of this article is providing eight major facilitators that should be used by Agile teams to support Agile transition and adoption. Some of these facilitators support team members in doing their jobs and empower them against challenges. Some others help them in dealing with challenges or prevent potential problems before occurrence in Agile transition process. Furthermore, some of these facilitators have positive effects on people and motivate them to adapt with their new behaviors. Agile transition and Adoption will be faster and easier if the more facilitators get involve.
Keywords
- Agile Software Development
- Agile Transi
How to Cite
Taghi Javdani Gandomani, Hazura Zulzalil, Abdul Azim Abdul Ghani, Abu Bakar Md. Sultan, and Khaironi Yatim Sharif, "Exploring Facilitators of Transition and Adoption to Agile Methods: A Grounded Theory Study," Journal of Software, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1666-1678, 2014. https://doi.org/ 10.4304/jsw.9.7.1666-1678
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Copyright © 2014 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).