Continuous Improvement in Agile Development Practice
Part 1: Research Papers International audience Agile development has positive attitudes towards continuously improving work practices of IT professionals and the quality of the software. This study focuses on value adding activities such as user involvement and gathering metrics and non-value adding...
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ftifiphal:oai:HAL:hal-01405065v1 2023-05-15T16:49:58+02:00 Continuous Improvement in Agile Development Practice Lárusdóttir, Marta, Cajander, Åsa Simader, Michael Reykjavík University Uppsala University Celum America Inc Chicago Stefan Sauer Cristian Bogdan Peter Forbrig Regina Bernhaupt Marco Winckler TC 13 WG 13.2 Paderborn, Germany 2014-09-16 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01405065 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01405065/document https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01405065/file/978-3-662-44811-3_4_Chapter.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44811-3_4 en eng HAL CCSD Springer info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/978-3-662-44811-3_4 hal-01405065 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01405065 https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01405065/document https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01405065/file/978-3-662-44811-3_4_Chapter.pdf doi:10.1007/978-3-662-44811-3_4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5th International Conference on Human-Centred Software Engineering (HCSE) https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01405065 5th International Conference on Human-Centred Software Engineering (HCSE), Sep 2014, Paderborn, Germany. pp.57-72, ⟨10.1007/978-3-662-44811-3_4⟩ [INFO]Computer Science [cs] info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2014 ftifiphal https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44811-3_4 2023-03-21T20:53:31Z Part 1: Research Papers International audience Agile development has positive attitudes towards continuously improving work practices of IT professionals and the quality of the software. This study focuses on value adding activities such as user involvement and gathering metrics and non-value adding activities, such as correcting defects. Interviews were conducted with 10 IT professionals working with agile development in Iceland. Results show that IT professionals emphasise communication with users both through direct contact and using email, but they rarely use metrics to make improvements measurable. The most serious non-value adding activities are: partially done work, delays and defects. The core reason is that long lists of defects in the projects exist, which means that the software is partially done and the defects cause delays in the process. There are efforts to reduce non-value adding activities in the process, but IT professionals are still confronted with problems attributed to miscommunication and the impediments by the external environment. Conference Object Iceland IFIP Open Digital Library (International Federation for Information Processing) 57 72 |
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Part 1: Research Papers International audience Agile development has positive attitudes towards continuously improving work practices of IT professionals and the quality of the software. This study focuses on value adding activities such as user involvement and gathering metrics and non-value adding activities, such as correcting defects. Interviews were conducted with 10 IT professionals working with agile development in Iceland. Results show that IT professionals emphasise communication with users both through direct contact and using email, but they rarely use metrics to make improvements measurable. The most serious non-value adding activities are: partially done work, delays and defects. The core reason is that long lists of defects in the projects exist, which means that the software is partially done and the defects cause delays in the process. There are efforts to reduce non-value adding activities in the process, but IT professionals are still confronted with problems attributed to miscommunication and the impediments by the external environment. |
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