Refactoring the Development Process: Experiences with the Incremental Adoption of Agile Practices

Authors:
Paul Hodgetts
Affiliations:
Agile Logic, Inc.
Venue:
ADC '04 Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference
Year:
2004

Citing 0
Cited 3

Modeling dynamics in agile software development

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Experience-based approach for adoption of agile practices in software development projects

CAiSE'10 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Approaches to agile adoption in large settings: a comparison of the results from a literature analysis and an industrial inventory

PROFES'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The goal of many current process improvement efforts is to become more agile by adopting an agile process. However, the results of several recent projects suggest that when attempting to become more agile, adopting an agile process is exactly the wrong thing to do! In this experience report, I discuss my failures with wholesale process adoption and my successes using an incremental adoption strategy based on metric- and retrospection-driven feedback. Similar to refactoring practices for design and code, this strategy identifies "process smells," and targets the worst of them with specific agile practices drawn from several popular agile processes.