Effective factors in agile transformation process from change management perspective

After introducing agile approach in 2001, several agile methods were founded over the last decade. Agile values such as customer collaboration, embracing changes, iteration and frequent delivery, continuous integration, etc. motivate all software stakeholders to use these methods in their projects. The main issue is that for using these methods instead of traditional methods in software development, companies should change their approach from traditional to agile. This change is a fundamental and critical mutation. Several studies have been done for investigating of barriers, challenges and issues in agile movement process and also in how to use agile methods in companies. The main issue is altering attitude from traditional to agile approach. We believe that before managing agile transformation process, its related factors should be studied in deep. This study focuses on different dimensions of changing approach to agile from change management perspective. These factors are how to being agile, method selection and awareness of challenges and issues. These fundamental factors encompass many items for agile movement and adoption process. However these factors may change in different organization, but they should be studied in deep before any action plan for designing a change strategy. The main contribution of this paper is introducing and these factors and discuss on them deeply

Key Factors for Selecting an Agile Method: A Systematic Literature Review

Agile methods have become popular in recent years because the success rate of project development using Agile methods is better than structured design methods. Nevertheless, less than 50 percent of projects implemented using Agile methods are considered successful, and selecting the wrong Agile method is one of the reasons for project failure. Selecting the most appropriate Agile method is a challenging task because there are so many to choose from. In addition, potential adopters believe that migrating to an Agile method involves taking a drastic risk. Therefore, to assist project managers and other decision makers, this study aims to identify the key factors that should be considered when selecting an appropriate Agile method. A systematic literature review was performed to elicit these factors in an unbiased manner and then content analysis was used to analyze the resultant data. It was found that the nature of project, development team skills, project constraints, customer involvement and organizational culture are the key factors that should guide decision makers in the selection of an appropriate Agile method based on the value these factors have for different organizations and/or different projects