Influences on agile practice tailoring in enterprise software development

Bass, Julian

Abstract

Agile development projects have become a reality in large enterprises using offshore development models. A case study involving seven international companies with offices in Bangalore, India, and London, UK was conducted, including interviews with 19 practitioners. The contribution of this paper is to illustrate the reasons for tailoring Agile practices within the context of large enterprises. The findings show that scrum roles and practices did not conflict with enterprise policies or processes and were thought to improve product quality and productivity. However, agile practices from the XP tradition were not so widely adopted. Test driven development did not integrate well within enterprises where independent quality assurance teams were constituted as separate departments. Continuous integration was found to be challenging where enterprise software products required time consuming regression testing and elaborate code release processes. While adoption of coding standards and collective code ownership are necessary to facilitate interaction between disparate stakeholder groups.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2012 Agile India
• Start Date: Feb 17, 2012
• End Date: Feb 19, 2012
• Publication Date: Mar 15, 2012
• Deposit Date: Jan 11, 2024
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/AgileIndia.2012.15