Title :
People over Process: Key Challenges in Agile Development
Author :
Conboy, Kieran ; Coyle, Sharon ; Wang, Xiaofeng ; Pikkarainen, Minna
Author_Institution :
Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Abstract :
Case studies of 17 organizations that have used agile methods for more than three years uncovered many serious "people" challenges including recruitment, training, motivation, and performance evaluation.
Keywords :
organisational aspects; recruitment; training; agile development; motivation; organisations; performance evaluation; recruitment; training; Agile manufacturing; Business; Management; Object oriented modeling; Strategic planning; adoption; agile; agile software development; developers; methodologies; people factors; software development; software engineering;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MS.2010.132