TY - GEN
T1 - Transition from plan driven to SAFe®
T2 - 18th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2017
AU - Razzak, Mohammad Abdur
AU - Noll, John
AU - Richardson, Ita
AU - Canna, Clodagh Nic
AU - Beecham, Sarah
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Context: How to adopt, scale and tailor agile methods depends on several factors such as the size of the organization, business goals, operative model, and needs. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) was developed to support organizations to scale agile practices across the enterprise. Problem: Early adopters of SAFe® tend to be large multi-national enterprises who report that the adoption of SAFe® has led to significant productivity and quality gains. However, little is known about whether these benefits translate to small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Method: As part of a longitudinal study of an SME transitioning to SAFe we ask, to what extent are SAFe® practices adopted at the team level? We targeted all team members and administrated a mixed method survey in February, 2017 and in July, 2017 to identify and evaluate the adoption rate of SAFe® practices. Results: Initially in Quarter 1, teams were struggling with PI/Release health and Technical health throughout the organization as most of the teams were transitioning from plan-driven to SAFe®. But, during the transition period in Quarter 3, we observed discernible improvements in different areas of SAFe practice adoption. Conclusion: The observed improvement might be due to teams merely becoming more familiar with the practices over-time. However, management had also made some structural changes to the teams that may account for the change.
AB - Context: How to adopt, scale and tailor agile methods depends on several factors such as the size of the organization, business goals, operative model, and needs. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) was developed to support organizations to scale agile practices across the enterprise. Problem: Early adopters of SAFe® tend to be large multi-national enterprises who report that the adoption of SAFe® has led to significant productivity and quality gains. However, little is known about whether these benefits translate to small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Method: As part of a longitudinal study of an SME transitioning to SAFe we ask, to what extent are SAFe® practices adopted at the team level? We targeted all team members and administrated a mixed method survey in February, 2017 and in July, 2017 to identify and evaluate the adoption rate of SAFe® practices. Results: Initially in Quarter 1, teams were struggling with PI/Release health and Technical health throughout the organization as most of the teams were transitioning from plan-driven to SAFe®. But, during the transition period in Quarter 3, we observed discernible improvements in different areas of SAFe practice adoption. Conclusion: The observed improvement might be due to teams merely becoming more familiar with the practices over-time. However, management had also made some structural changes to the teams that may account for the change.
KW - Global software engineering
KW - Inter-team coordination
KW - Metrics
KW - Process assessment
KW - SAFe
KW - Scrum
KW - Software process improvement
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4_47
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4_47
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85034568584
SN - 9783319699257
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 573
EP - 585
BT - Product-Focused Software Process Improvement -18th International Conference, PROFES 2017, Proceedings
A2 - Turhan, Burak
A2 - Winkler, Dietmar
A2 - Sarro, Federica
A2 - Kalinowski, Marcos
A2 - Mendez Fernandez, Daniel
A2 - Felderer, Michael
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 29 November 2017 through 1 December 2017
ER -