TY - GEN
T1 - Agile Development at ABC - What Went Wrong?
AU - Karekar, Cristina
AU - Tarrell, Alvin
AU - Fruhling, Ann
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Agile development methods continue to enjoy widespread use, with more and more companies transitioning to agile methods. Current literature suggests that most of those companies are successful in making the transition, but others are not so successful. This paper examines one such company - referred to within as the 'ABC Company' to maintain their privacy - and analyzes and discusses their struggles with implementing agile methods. In short, it appears that lack of firm leadership commitment to agile, absence of a clearly defined customer to provide clearly defined requirements or push for additional software capabilities, failure to provide adequate initial or ongoing training and support to the organization as a whole, and underestimating the change management requirements were contributing factors to ABC's struggles with implementing agile methods. These conclusions were reached based on a series of interviews with company employees, review of the relevant literature, and comparisons with other similar case studies.
AB - Agile development methods continue to enjoy widespread use, with more and more companies transitioning to agile methods. Current literature suggests that most of those companies are successful in making the transition, but others are not so successful. This paper examines one such company - referred to within as the 'ABC Company' to maintain their privacy - and analyzes and discusses their struggles with implementing agile methods. In short, it appears that lack of firm leadership commitment to agile, absence of a clearly defined customer to provide clearly defined requirements or push for additional software capabilities, failure to provide adequate initial or ongoing training and support to the organization as a whole, and underestimating the change management requirements were contributing factors to ABC's struggles with implementing agile methods. These conclusions were reached based on a series of interviews with company employees, review of the relevant literature, and comparisons with other similar case studies.
KW - Agile software development
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885648713
SN - 9781618390981
T3 - 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011
BT - 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011
PB - AIS/ICIS Administrative Office
T2 - 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011
Y2 - 4 August 2011 through 8 August 2011
ER -