Management Challenges to Implementing Agile Processes in Traditional Development Organizations

  • Authors:

  • Barry Boehm;Richard Turner

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Southern California;Systems and Software Consortium

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Agile software development processes have shown positive impacts on cost, schedule, and customer satisfaction. However, most implementations of agile processes have been in smaller-scale, software-only environments. In March 2004, a group of researchers and practitioners addressed the implementation of agile processes into large systems engineering-based projects that rely on traditional development processes and artifacts. They identified three management challenge areas. Here, the authors discuss numerous ways in which to address them.