Towards understanding the motivation of german organizations to apply certain software development methods

Jil Klünder, Philipp Hohl, Steffen Küpper, Stephan Krusche, Pernille Lous, Masud Fazal-Baqaie, Christian R. Prause

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Abstract

The motivation to apply and to integrate agile methods into established development processes can be seen all over the world. However, the motivation for applying agile methods is not well understood as different objectives are possible: some organizations address the constantly changing market and customer demands, others are doing “agile” as the presumed best practice. This publication aims towards a better understanding of the motivation to apply the chosen development methods in Germany. We present preliminary results based on the data collection of the “Hybrid dEveLopmENt Approaches in software systems development” (HELENA) study. Further, we exemplary look at the role of criticality for choosing agile or traditional development methods. The results indicate that the six development methods applied most in Germany are Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, Waterfall, V-Model, and Iterative Development. However, a particular method is not necessarily chosen due to a specific goal. This indicates that as future work other influencing factors, e.g., the criticality of the final product, need to be identified and taken into account for analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProduct-Focused Software Process Improvement - 19th International Conference, PROFES 2018, Proceedings
EditorsMarcus Ciolkowski, Regina Hebig, Marco Kuhrmann, Dietmar Pfahl, Paolo Tell, Sousuke Amasaki, Steffen Küpper, Kurt Schneider, Jil Klünder
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages449-456
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783030036720
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event19th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2018 - Wolfsburg, Germany
Duration: 28 Nov 201830 Nov 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11271 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityWolfsburg
Period28/11/1830/11/18

Keywords

  • Agile methods
  • HELENA study
  • Hybrid software development

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