Assessing the adoption level of scaled agile development: a maturity model for Scaled Agile Framework
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چکیده
Although the agile software development approaches have gained wide acceptance in practice, the concerns regarding the scalability and integration of agile practices in traditional large-scale system development projects are prevailing. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has emerged as a solution to address some of these concerns. Despite few encouraging results, case studies indicate several challenges of SAFe adoption. Currently, there is a lack of a well-structured gradual approach for establishing SAFe. Before and during SAFe adoption, organizations can benefit greatly from a uniform model for assessing the current progress, and establishing a roadmap for the initiative. To address this need, we developed a maturity model that provides guidance for software developing organizations in defining a roadmap for adopting SAFe. The model can also be used to assess the level of SAFe adoption. We took an existing agile maturity model as a basis for agile practices and extended it with practices that are key to SAFe. The model was developed and refined with industry experts using the Delphi technique. A case study was conducted in a large organization where we evaluated the model by applying it to assess the level of SAFe adoption. Keywords— agile software development; agile development in large-scale, scaled agile framework; maturity model; Delphi study. 1 Corresponding author. Email: o.turetken@tue.nl, T: +31 4
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of Software: Evolution and Process
دوره 29 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017