Book description
Creativity and productivity, rapid adaptation to change, value for the customer—these are just some of the advantages of implementing agile practices in project work. However, agile practices have been most widely and successfully undertaken in the context of small, colocated teams working on small software projects, known as the “agile sweet spot.” In this monograph, Brian Hobbs and Yvan Petit explore the use and impact of agile outside of the agile sweet spot. Through a case study and survey questionnaire, they uncover research questions that have remained largely unexamined in the literature, on the project level as well as on the organizational level, namely: • What challenges are encountered when applying agile approaches to large, multi-team software projects and what practices have been developed to alleviate these challenges? • How does the context of large, complex organizations affect the adaptation and adoption of agile approaches and vice versa? An illuminating study of this emerging field, Agile Approaches on Large Projects in Large Organizations opens the door to further investigation on the future role of project managers, the use of scaling frameworks at the program and portfolio levels, and the effects of DevOps, one of the recent trends in agile software development.Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Acronyms
- Executive Summary
- 1 - Introduction
- 2 - Literature Review
- 3 - Methodology
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4 - Results
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4.1 Characteristics of Respondents, Their Organizations, and their Projects
- 4.1.1 Respondent Demographics
- 4.1.2 Countries of Users and Producers of Software
- 4.1.3 Description of the Organizational Context—Private and Public Sectors
- 4.1.4 Description of the Organizational Context—Organization Size
- 4.1.5 Description of the Organizational Context—Primary Activity
- 4.1.6 Description of the Organizational Context—Use of Agile Approach
- 4.1.7 Description of the Specific Projects
- 4.2 Implementation of Agile Approaches
- 4.3 The Project Front End
- 4.4 Project Organizations
- 4.5 The Tools and Techniques Employed
- 4.6 Scaling Frameworks
- 4.7 Testing, Integration, and DevOps
- 4.8 The Portrait Provided by the Results
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4.1 Characteristics of Respondents, Their Organizations, and their Projects
- 5 - Discussion
- 6 - Conclusion
- 7 - Future Research
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Appendix
- About the Authors
Product information
- Title: Agile Approaches on Large Projects in Large Organizations
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2017
- Publisher(s): Project Management Institute
- ISBN: None
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