Empirical Investigation on Agile Methods Usage: Issues Identified from Early Adopters in Malaysia
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 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.
Agile Methods, Factors, Barriers, Software Process.
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Asnawi, Ani Liza
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Gravell, Andrew
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Asnawi, Ani Liza
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Gravell, Andrew
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Asnawi, Ani Liza, Gravell, Andrew and Wills, Gary
(2011)
Empirical Investigation on Agile Methods Usage: Issues Identified from Early Adopters in Malaysia.
XP2011, 12th International conference on Agile Software Development,, Madrid, Spain.
10 - 13 May 2011.
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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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Published date: 2011
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Event Dates: 10-13 May
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XP2011, 12th International conference on Agile Software Development,, Madrid, Spain, 2011-05-10 - 2011-05-13
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Agile Methods, Factors, Barriers, Software Process.
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Electronic & Software Systems
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/272250
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Ani Liza Asnawi
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Andrew Gravell
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Gary Wills
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