Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study

First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007) Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI:10.1109/ESEM.2007.12

Andrew Begel, Nachiappan Nagappan

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Agile development methodologies have been gaining acceptance in the mainstream software development community. While there are numerous studies of agile development in academic and educational settings, there has been little detailed reporting of the usage, penetration and success of agile methodologies in traditional, professional software development organizations. We report on the results of an empirical study conducted at Microsoft to learn about agile development and its perception by people in development, testing, and management. We found that one-third of the study respondents use agile methodologies to varying degrees, and most view it favorably due to improved communication between team members, quick releases and the increased flexibility of agile designs. The scrum variant of agile methodologies is by far the most popular at Microsoft. Our findings also indicate that developers are most worried about scaling agile to larger projects (greater than twenty members), attending too many meetings and the coordinating agile and non-agile teams.

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敏捷软件开发在工业环境中的使用和认知:一项探索性研究

敏捷开发方法已经被主流软件开发社区所接受。虽然学术界和教育界对敏捷开发进行了大量的研究，但很少有关于敏捷方法在传统的专业软件开发组织中的使用、渗透和成功的详细报道。我们报告了在微软进行的一项实证研究的结果，以了解敏捷开发以及开发、测试和管理人员对敏捷开发的看法。我们发现，三分之一的受访者在不同程度上使用了敏捷方法，并且由于团队成员之间的沟通改善、快速发布和敏捷设计的灵活性增加，大多数人认为它是有利的。到目前为止，敏捷方法的scrum变体在微软是最流行的。我们的研究结果还表明，开发人员最担心的是将敏捷扩展到更大的项目(超过20个成员)，参加太多的会议，以及协调敏捷和非敏捷团队。

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