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International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination

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Towards the Development of a Sequential Framework for Agile Adoption

Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS,volume 770)

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This research demonstrates the first steps towards the creation of a generic sequential Agile adoption framework. The presented Framework is the result of a detailed analysis of academic literature and industrial reports, and a multi-case study conducted in three large enterprises in Spain and Serbia. The proposed Agile adoption framework is composed of three main sequential phases for Agile method adoption process: Preparation, Transformation and Agile organisation. Preparation, the first phase of the framework, is developed to the highest level of detail and validated in three case companies. The main contribution of the paper is the proposed framework, from which the first phase is ready to be used by practitioners, and second and third phases are useful for academic society and they can be developed and validated further in the future. Integrated list of contingency factors, and list of situational factors, may be used by practitioners independently of using the generic Framework for Agile adoption presented in the paper.

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  • Agile adoption
  • Agile transformation process
  • Process improvement
  • Agile software development

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This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology with ERDF funds under grants TIN2016-76956-C3-3-R and TIN2013-46928-C3-2-R and by the Erasmus Mundus Euroweb+ project.

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    Miloš Jovanović, Antoni-Lluís Mesquida & Antònia Mas

  2. Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6, 21000, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Miloš Jovanović & Bojan Lalić

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  4. Software Quality Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Jovanović, M., Mesquida, AL., Mas, A., Lalić, B. (2017). Towards the Development of a Sequential Framework for Agile Adoption. In: Mas, A., Mesquida, A., O'Connor, R., Rout, T., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 770. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67383-7_3

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