A study of value in agile software development organizations
Journal article, 2017
The Agile manifesto focuses on the delivery of valuable software. In Lean, the principles emphasise value, where every activity that does not add value is seen as waste. Despite the strong focus on value, and that the primary critical success factor for software intensive product development lies in the value domain, no empirical study has investigated specifically what value is. This paper presents an empirical study that investigates how value is interpreted and prioritised, and how value is assured and measured. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 23 participants from 14 agile software development organisations. The contribution of this study is fourfold. First, it examines how value is perceived amongst agile software development organisations. Second, it compares the perceptions and priorities of the perceived values by domains and roles. Third, it includes an examination of what practices are used to achieve value in industry, and what hinders the achievement of value. Fourth, it characterises what measurements are used to assure, and evaluate value-creation activities. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
User Experience
driven
Agile software development
v23
decisions
model
requirements
actice
PT IV3rd International Conference on Design
Empirical
ACTICE
OCEEDINGS19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training
Computer Science
p549
Turtle
and Usability (DUXU)
APR 19-21
quality
Value
2006
JUN 22-
Author
Hiva Alahyari
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)
Richard Berntsson Svensson
University of Gothenburg
Tony Gorschek
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)
Journal of Systems and Software
0164-1212 (ISSN)
Vol. 125 271-288Areas of Advance
Information and Communication Technology
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Computer and Information Science
Computer Science
DOI
10.1016/j.jss.2016.12.007