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A Review on the Critical Success Factors of Agile Software Development

Authors : Abdullah Aldahmash, Andy M. Gravell, Yvonne Howard

Published in: Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Given the evolution and increasing usage of agile methods and practices, the successful adoption of agile is crucial. During the last decade, the critical success factors (CSFs) of agile development research developed rapidly. This paper aims to review the research on CSFs of agile software development in the last ten years (2006–2016) which used empirical methodologies to identify the success factors. In this paper, eight factors are selected as critical success factors for agile software development. A taxonomy which maps these eight CSFs into Technical, Organizational, People, Process categories is introduced in this research.

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Metadata
Title
A Review on the Critical Success Factors of Agile Software Development
Authors
Abdullah Aldahmash
Andy M. Gravell
Yvonne Howard
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64217-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-64218-5

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64218-5_41

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