Empirical investigation on agile methods usage: issues identified from early adopters in Malaysia
Agile Methods are a set of software practices that can help to produce products faster and at the same time deliver what customers want. Despite the benefits that Agile methods can deliver, however, we found few studies from the Southeast Asia region, particularly Malaysia. As a result, less emp...
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Springer-Verlag
2011
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/33072/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/33072/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/33072/1/ani.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/33072/4/Verso%26TOC_AgileProcesses.pdf |
| Summary: | Agile Methods are a set of software practices that can help to
produce products faster and at the same time deliver what customers want.
Despite the benefits that Agile methods can deliver, however, we found few
studies from the Southeast Asia region, particularly Malaysia. As a result, less
empirical evidence can be obtained in the country making its implementation
harder. To use a new method, experience from other practitioners is critical,
which describes what is important, what is possible and what is not possible
concerning Agile. We conducted a qualitative study to understand the issues
faced by early adopters in Malaysia where Agile methods are still relatively
new. The initial study involves 13 participants including project managers,
CEOs, founders and software developers from seven organisations. Our study
has shown that social and human aspects are important when using Agile
methods. While technical aspects have always been considered to exist in
software development, we found these factors to be less important when using
Agile methods. The results obtained can serve as guidelines to practitioners in
the country and the neighbouring regions. |
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