TY - GEN
T1 - How Agile Is Hybrid Agile? An Analysis of the HELENA Data
AU - Noll, John
AU - Beecham, Sarah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Context: Many researchers advocate “tailoring” agile methods to suit a project’s or company’s specific environment and needs. This includes combining agile methods with more traditional “plan driven” practices. Objective: This study aims to assess to what extent projects actually combine agile and traditional practices. Method: Data from the HELENA survey of nearly 700 projects were examined to assess how many projects combine agile methods and traditional methods, and also to what extent they used different software development practices. Results: The data show that, overall, two-thirds of the projects in the survey combine agile and traditional methods to some extent. However, projects that combine agile and traditional methods are significantly less likely to use agile practices than projects that solely use agile methods. Conclusions: We hypothesize that the mindset of an organization, rather than technical necessity, determines whether a project will adopt a hybrid vs. purely agile approach.
AB - Context: Many researchers advocate “tailoring” agile methods to suit a project’s or company’s specific environment and needs. This includes combining agile methods with more traditional “plan driven” practices. Objective: This study aims to assess to what extent projects actually combine agile and traditional practices. Method: Data from the HELENA survey of nearly 700 projects were examined to assess how many projects combine agile methods and traditional methods, and also to what extent they used different software development practices. Results: The data show that, overall, two-thirds of the projects in the survey combine agile and traditional methods to some extent. However, projects that combine agile and traditional methods are significantly less likely to use agile practices than projects that solely use agile methods. Conclusions: We hypothesize that the mindset of an organization, rather than technical necessity, determines whether a project will adopt a hybrid vs. purely agile approach.
KW - Agile development methods
KW - Empirical Software engineering
KW - Hybrid agile development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076556322&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_25
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076556322
SN - 9783030353322
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 341
EP - 349
BT - Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 20th International Conference, PROFES 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Franch, Xavier
A2 - Männistö, Tomi
A2 - Martínez-Fernández, Silverio
PB - Springer
T2 - 20th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2019
Y2 - 27 November 2019 through 29 November 2019
ER -