An Empirical Study on the Relationship between the Use of Agile Practices and the Success of Software Projects that Use Scrum

Author

de Souza Mariz, Leila M R ; França, César A C ; Silva, Fabio Q B Da

Author_Institution

Centro de Inf., Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

Sept. 27 2010-Oct. 1 2010

Firstpage

110

Lastpage

117

Abstract

This work has the goal of investigating the relationship between the use of agile practices and the success of software projects that use Scrum. The method used in the investigation was a cross-sectional survey that collected data from 62 software engineers associated to 11 projects in 9 different software firms, representing 75% of the population in the studied projects. The results show that only 8 of the 25 attributes associated with agile practices have significant correlation with project success. These results suggest that it is important to consider carefully which agile practices must be prioritized in order to increase the effectiveness of the deployment of agile methodologies in the software industry.

Keywords

DP industry; project management; software prototyping; agile practices; scrum; software firms; software industry; software projects; Bills of materials; Correlation; Electronic mail; Face; Industries; Instruments; Software; desenvolvimento ágil; engenharia de software experimental; pesquisa de campo;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering (SBES), 2010 Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Salvador, Bahia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8917-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4273-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBES.2010.17

Filename

5629772