The journey to technical excellence in agile software development

Technical excellence is a nebulous term in agile software development. This vagueness risky because it may lead to misunderstandings and implementations that overlook key principle of study investigates how practitioners interpret the concept technical brought up Principle 9 Agile manifesto. Moreover, we investigate put into practice what conditions facilitate putting practice. We conducted semi-structured interviews with twenty practitioners, coded data inductively, performed two sessions validate emerging findings. find first foremost mindset underpinned by continuous attention sustainable code, learning, teamwork. Fostering requires adoption design development practices, such as architecting, supported learning. also identify three enabling for excellence: Leadership support, customer buy-in, psychological safety. These enablers provide teams leeway nurture their pursuit excellence. Our findings highlight role people-based strategies promoting They show attainment does not only involve practices. On contrary, relies on social organizational support and, most importantly, mindset. • reference quality manifesto investigated interpretation implementation engineering practices happen without team members’ commitment nurtured various