Bringing templates to life: overcoming obstacles to the organizational implementation of Agile methods
Agile software development methods have become accepted as a template for organizations to create new products. Though generally viewed as an aid to productivity, there are a number of barriers to experiencing their full benefit. One such barrier pertains to the implementation of agile methods acro...
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Agile software development methods have become accepted as a template for organizations to create new products. Though generally viewed as an aid to productivity, there are a number of barriers to experiencing their full benefit. One such barrier pertains to the implementation of agile methods across the range of organizational levels from the use of tools to culture, norms, and policies creating the context within which projects are performed. This essay examines in detail the experiences of one expert at integrating agile technique, approach, and philosophy into the broader organizational setting. Numerous particular lessons and prescriptions result from this discussion. Turning around the grounded theory approach where numerous individuals are interrogated mildly in regard to a particular phenomenon, the discussion surfaced in this paper results from repeated interviews with one domain expert. Lessons and comments are organized into four sections: individual team member, organization, transitioning, and tools and techniques.
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| spelling | doaj.art-0bfeef9dc3d04f81808cf985453958182022-12-21T19:06:13ZengUMinho EditoraInternational Journal of Information Systems and Project Management2182-77882021-10-0193Bringing templates to life: overcoming obstacles to the organizational implementation of Agile methodsMichael Durbin0Fred Niederman1Saint Louis UniversityManagement Department, Saint Louis University Agile software development methods have become accepted as a template for organizations to create new products. Though generally viewed as an aid to productivity, there are a number of barriers to experiencing their full benefit. One such barrier pertains to the implementation of agile methods across the range of organizational levels from the use of tools to culture, norms, and policies creating the context within which projects are performed. This essay examines in detail the experiences of one expert at integrating agile technique, approach, and philosophy into the broader organizational setting. Numerous particular lessons and prescriptions result from this discussion. Turning around the grounded theory approach where numerous individuals are interrogated mildly in regard to a particular phenomenon, the discussion surfaced in this paper results from repeated interviews with one domain expert. Lessons and comments are organized into four sections: individual team member, organization, transitioning, and tools and techniques. https://revistas.uminho.pt/index.php/ijispm/article/view/3631agile methodssoftware developmentproject managementportfolio managementagile mindsetSAFe |
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| title | Bringing templates to life: overcoming obstacles to the organizational implementation of Agile methods |
| title_full | Bringing templates to life: overcoming obstacles to the organizational implementation of Agile methods |
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| title_short | Bringing templates to life: overcoming obstacles to the organizational implementation of Agile methods |
| title_sort | bringing templates to life overcoming obstacles to the organizational implementation of agile methods |
| topic | agile methods software development project management portfolio management agile mindset SAFe |
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