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2016-09 |
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2016-09-30 |
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abstract |
Context: There continues to be concern that research is not addressing the challenges
that practice faces. For the benefit of academia and industry, researchers need to
be aware of practitioners’ challenges and their context so that relevant and applicable
research is undertaken.
Objective: This paper investigates two research questions: what challenges do agile
practitioners face? and, how do practitioner challenges manifest themselves in an
organisational setting? It aims to map the practitioner challenge landscape, explore
challenge characteristics, compare findings with previous literature and identify
implications for research that is relevant to practice.
Method: A combination of methods was used: elicitation of practitioner challenges
collected using a Challenge Wall at a series of practitioner events; organisational
Case Study using interviews, document analysis and observation; and online Survey.
Findings were then compared to previous publications.
Results: Challenges collected from the Challenge Wall were grouped under 27 subthemes
and seven themes: Claims and Limitations, Organisation, Sustainability, Culture, Teams,
Scale, and Value. Investigating one challenge in the Case Study uncovered a set of
new challenges, which were inter-related. Over 50% of survey respondents experienced
challenges highlighted in the Case Study.
Conclusion: The landscape of agile practitioner challenges is complex and intertwined.
Some challenges, such as doing agile in a non-agile environment, are multi-dimensional,
affect many aspects of practice, and may be experienced simultaneously as business,
organisational, social and adaptation problems. Some challenges, such as understanding
cultural change or measuring agile value, persist and are hard to address, while others,
such as adoption, change focus over time. Some challenges, such as governance and
contracts, are under-researched, while others, such as business and IT transformation,
have been researched but findings have not had the expected impact. Researchers wishing
to address practitioner challenges need to treat them in context rather than in isolation
and improve knowledge transfer. |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/421735 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/433894 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/433896 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/433897 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/433898 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/433899 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/433900 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/434199 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/652040 |
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77 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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Gregory, Peggy; Barroca, Leonor ; Sharp, Helen ; Deshpande, Advait and Taylor,
Katie (2016). The challenges that challenge: Engaging with agile practitioners’ concerns.
Information and Software Technology, 77 pp. 92–104. |
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Gregory, Peggy; Barroca, Leonor ; Sharp, Helen ; Deshpande, Advait and Taylor, Katie
(2016). The challenges that challenge: Engaging with agile practitioners’ concerns.
Information and Software Technology, 77 pp. 92–104. |
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Title |
The challenges that challenge: Engaging with agile practitioners’ concerns |
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oro |