Exploring the challenges and benefits for scaling agile project management to large projects: a review

IF 2.1 3区计算机科学 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Requirements Engineering Pub Date : 2021-10-25 DOI:10.1007/s00766-021-00363-3

Santos, Paula de Oliveira, de Carvalho, Marly Monteiro

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Abstract

Organizations have increasingly applied agile project management; however, they face challenges in scaling up this approach to large projects. Thus, this study investigates the key barriers and benefits of scaling agile methods to large projects. The research approach is a literature review, applying bibliometrics and content analysis with Bibliometrix and UCINET software. We conducted a sampling process in the Web of Science and Scopus databases and surveyed 76 articles in depth. The results identified 53 barriers clustered into six main categories: organizational issues, managerial issues, agile method-specific barriers, product/process issues, customer issues, and team issues. Thirty-two benefits were coded and clustered into three categories: business, project, and team. Requirement management appears as a core topic, impacting both barriers and benefits for scaling agile project management. We identified a strong relationship between the barriers and benefits. These results can be used to create questionnaires to explore these barriers and benefits in practice.

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探索将敏捷项目管理扩展到大型项目的挑战和好处:回顾

组织越来越多地应用敏捷项目管理;然而，他们在将这种方法扩展到大型项目时面临着挑战。因此，本研究调查了将敏捷方法扩展到大型项目的主要障碍和好处。本文的研究方法是文献综述，运用文献计量学和内容分析，并使用Bibliometrix和UCINET软件。我们对Web of Science和Scopus数据库进行了抽样调查，对76篇文章进行了深入调查。结果确定了53个障碍，分为6个主要类别:组织问题、管理问题、特定于敏捷方法的障碍、产品/过程问题、客户问题和团队问题。32个利益被编码并聚集到三个类别中:业务、项目和团队。需求管理作为一个核心主题出现，影响着扩展敏捷项目管理的障碍和好处。我们发现了障碍和利益之间的紧密关系。这些结果可以用来制作问卷，以探索这些障碍和好处在实践中。

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Requirements Engineering 工程技术-计算机：软件工程

CiteScore

7.10

自引率

10.70%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The journal provides a focus for the dissemination of new results about the elicitation, representation and validation of requirements of software intensive information systems or applications. Theoretical and applied submissions are welcome, but all papers must explicitly address: -the practical consequences of the ideas for the design of complex systems -how the ideas should be evaluated by the reflective practitioner The journal is motivated by a multi-disciplinary view that considers requirements not only in terms of software components specification but also in terms of activities for their elicitation, representation and agreement, carried out within an organisational and social context. To this end, contributions are sought from fields such as software engineering, information systems, occupational sociology, cognitive and organisational psychology, human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, linguistics and philosophy for work addressing specifically requirements engineering issues.