Catarina Koudriachov, Carlos Tam, Manuela Aparicio
{"title":"Success with Agile Project Management: Looking back and into the future","authors":"Catarina Koudriachov, Carlos Tam, Manuela Aparicio","doi":"10.1016/j.jss.2025.112428","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We show what the influential factors and practical strategies are that contribute to agile project management success. The research model comprises three people-related factors (personal characteristics, team capability, and customer involvement), three technological factors (gamification, artificial intelligence, and marketing intelligence), and one dependent variable (agile project management success). Based on 143 questionnaire responses, our findings reaffirm the positive impact of personal characteristics and customer involvement while challenging the roles of gamification and team capability, suggesting that their effects are more context-dependent than previously thought. Our findings also highlight that agile project management success depends on the interplay between remote work and team capability, with strong team skills being highly important for agile methodologies, especially in traditional office settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51099,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Systems and Software","volume":"226 ","pages":"Article 112428"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Systems and Software","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121225000962","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
We show what the influential factors and practical strategies are that contribute to agile project management success. The research model comprises three people-related factors (personal characteristics, team capability, and customer involvement), three technological factors (gamification, artificial intelligence, and marketing intelligence), and one dependent variable (agile project management success). Based on 143 questionnaire responses, our findings reaffirm the positive impact of personal characteristics and customer involvement while challenging the roles of gamification and team capability, suggesting that their effects are more context-dependent than previously thought. Our findings also highlight that agile project management success depends on the interplay between remote work and team capability, with strong team skills being highly important for agile methodologies, especially in traditional office settings.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Systems and Software publishes papers covering all aspects of software engineering and related hardware-software-systems issues. All articles should include a validation of the idea presented, e.g. through case studies, experiments, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
•Methods and tools for, and empirical studies on, software requirements, design, architecture, verification and validation, maintenance and evolution
•Agile, model-driven, service-oriented, open source and global software development
•Approaches for mobile, multiprocessing, real-time, distributed, cloud-based, dependable and virtualized systems
•Human factors and management concerns of software development
•Data management and big data issues of software systems
•Metrics and evaluation, data mining of software development resources
•Business and economic aspects of software development processes
The journal welcomes state-of-the-art surveys and reports of practical experience for all of these topics.