Assessment method for Scrum culture within the Development team

Agile methods have become the most adopted within the software industry as they offer a faster return on investment, better software quality, and higher customer satisfaction in comparison with the traditional approaches. However, the agile method is regarded as a cultural shift where values need to be institutionalized within the development team prior methodology implementation. Many organization adopting agile method without considering its values which lead to undesired outcomes. Despite this, the current literature lacks attempts in assessing agile team culture readiness. Therefore, this research develops the Value, Goal, Question, and metric (VGQM) assessment method to assess agile team culture readiness within the development team. The VGQM includes metrics that selected purposely to evaluate agile team values. The VGQM is based on the Goal, Question, and Metric (GQM) paradigm concept. The VGQM was applied in a software company as a case study for evaluation purposes. The outcome of the case study shows the VGQM capability to assess agile values and identify gaps as areas for improvement.