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Title An Industry Survey of Demotivators for Scaling Up Agile Methodology

Author(s) Osama Tariq

Abstract Traditional software development approaches advocate heavy upfront planning, extensive documentation and reluctance to change adoption. These characteristics attributed to the failure of many software development projects in the past. Eventually, agile software development approach evolved that changed many of the aspects of traditional software development such as flexible planning, light documentation, change embracing approach. These approaches yielded better results when applied to the small-scale software projects but challenges were encountered when agile approaches were applied to large scale software projects. This research study aims to seek the opinion of the industry practitioners regarding the demotivators faced while scaling agile methodologies as mentioned in the literature. Questionnaire survey has been adopted as the research methodology due to its aptness in this research study. 143 survey respondents have contributed their valuable opinions for data collection in this research study. To map the industry survey findings with the literature survey, a comparison has been made between the top ranked demotivators from literature and industry survey. Statistical data analysis reveals a high degree of consistency between the findings of literature review and the opinion of large-scale agile software practitioners. Moreover, the best practices to address the demotivators have also been discussed at length.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Engineering and Computer Science

Department Engineering

Language English

Publication Date 2022-09-08

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