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Agile Adoption Case Study, Pains, Challenges & Benefits

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Kamel, Amr A. Ahmed, Elmohanned Anwar, Asmaa
Abstract	An organization with an established process, assessed at CMMI maturity Level 3 more than 10 years ago, realized process corrosion symptoms. Over the years, changes in business conditions resulted in more and more process tailoring rules to adhere to the new needs, while maintaining the process maturity level. The increase in tailoring rules has made the process definition hard to understand with inconclusive tailoring results in some cases. This lead to major changes in the organization's process improvement strategy. To build a sound process and avoid previous improvements pitfalls, the process improvement team decided to research the applicability of process agility before adopting it. The question we tried to answer was "Can agile processes improve the organization's performance indicators while maintaining the process maturity level?" We used action research, a practical and widely used research methodology, to answer our question. We selected action research to engage process actors in the improvement and/or refinement process. In this paper, we report on our improvement efforts during the first year of deployment. This paper focuses on issues, pains and challenges we faced during the first cycle of redefining and deploying the processes to achieve the agility goals. Results from the first deployment cycle, were promising. Among other improvements, process agility reduced the rate of rework from 29% to 13%.
Starting Page	60
Ending Page	65
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450342933
DOI	10.1145/2944165.2944175
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2016-05-28
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Agile software development Action research Practical experience
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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