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Agile Methods, Lean Development and the Change of Work in Software Development

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Future Business Software

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For a long time, agile methods such as Scrum and XP have been considered as an innovative niche for specialists in IT. This is changing profoundly. The combination of agile methods and the principles of “Lean Development” has become the foundation for a deep change in the organization of software development in general. Empowered teams, synchronized development processes, collective forms of knowledge and continuous improvement of processes are the central elements of a new state of the art in software development. This evolving organisation of work in the IT sector leads to a new situation for IT employees and to new working conditions. Based on empirical research this paper shows how the work of software developers has changed, which experiences they have made and which challenges they are confronted with.

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    Most notably the projects funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science, “GlobePro” (www.globe-pro.de, 2009–2013), “Women in Career” (www.frauen-in-karriere.de, 2008–2013), “pinowa” (www.pinowa.de, 2012–2015), “Diwa-IT” (www.diwa-it.de, 2007–2010), and “Export IT” (www.export-it.de, 2005–2009). On the whole, we have done several hundreds of expert interviews and intensive interviews with employees and managers in this context (cf. e.g. Boes et al. 2011a, 2012; Kämpf et al. 2011).

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  3. Urban Software Institute GmbH & Co. KG, Walldorf, Germany

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Boes, A., Kämpf, T. (2014). Agile Methods, Lean Development and the Change of Work in Software Development. In: Brunetti, G., Feld, T., Heuser, L., Schnitter, J., Webel, C. (eds) Future Business Software. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04144-5_7

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