Characteristics and Challenges of Agile Software Development Adoption in Brazilian Government

Q3 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Technology Management and Innovation Pub Date : 2020-08-01 DOI:10.4067/s0718-27242020000200003

Rafaela Mantovani Fontana, S. Marczak

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Abstract

Governments worldwide have been working to provide better digital services to citizens. In Brazil, this initiative is ongoing since the 2000’s with the aim create better digital solutions that provide access to government information, improvements in public services, and increase social participation. One of the strategies for developing digital solutions – i.e. software solutions – is the adoption of agile software development (ASD) methods, which are forms of software processes that enable delivering working software in a timely manner to respond to customer needs. While industry surveys are performed annually to understand ASD adoption in companies, little is known about the adoption of ASD in Brazilian government organizations and which are the challenges faced by these organizations. The goal of this study is thus to describe agile software development adoption in the Brazilian public sector, by showing the characteristics for adoption and challenges. We conducted a survey with practitioners of government-based organizations in Brazil and statistically analyzed data. Out of the 167 responses, we learned that ASD projects are mostly successful and, on their majority, they are conducted combined with other software development approaches. Also, accelerating product delivery and increasing productivity are ranked as the main reasons for agile adoption, followed by cultural change and resistance to change as the main challenges still faced by Brazilian government IT organizations in the use of ASD.

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巴西政府采用敏捷软件开发的特点和挑战

世界各国政府一直在努力为公民提供更好的数字服务。在巴西，这项倡议自2000年代以来一直在进行，目的是创造更好的数字解决方案，提供政府信息，改善公共服务，增加社会参与。开发数字解决方案(即软件解决方案)的策略之一是采用敏捷软件开发(ASD)方法，这是一种能够及时交付工作软件以响应客户需求的软件过程形式。虽然每年都会进行行业调查，以了解公司对ASD的采用情况，但对于巴西政府组织对ASD的采用情况以及这些组织面临的挑战知之甚少。因此，本研究的目标是通过展示采用和挑战的特征来描述巴西公共部门对敏捷软件开发的采用。我们对巴西政府机构的从业人员进行了调查，并对数据进行了统计分析。在167个回应中，我们了解到ASD项目大多数是成功的，并且在大多数情况下，它们与其他软件开发方法相结合。此外，加速产品交付和提高生产力被列为采用敏捷的主要原因，其次是文化变革和抵制变革，这是巴西政府IT组织在使用ASD时仍然面临的主要挑战。

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Journal of Technology Management and Innovation Business, Management and Accounting-Management of Technology and Innovation

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2.00

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审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： JOTMI is a quarterly indexed electronic journal, refereed and edited by Business and Economy Faculty at Alberto Hurtado University. Its mission is to publish original and novel literature in the fields of technology management and innovation; putting emphasis in topics relevant in a global fashion, remarking in Latin-Ibero-America and the Caribbean. The objective of the journal is to analyze the impact that global technological change has on society and to disseminate the best management practices of companies and organizations.