Agile in India: Challenges and lessons learned
2010 (English)In: ISEC - Proc. India Softw. Eng. Conf., 2010, p. 125-130Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Indian software organizations have long been early adopters of process improvement as a means of demonstrating organizational capabilities to their global client base. As a result, the development approaches in these organizations are often heavily plan-based, generating structures and processes that are appropriate to those approaches. Agile methods have forced a paradigm change in how we manage and execute software development. Adopting and sustaining agile methods requires organizations to not only manage the radical shift in the operational aspects of software development, but also the soft factors of organizational design such as vision, commitment, culture and training. Using three case studies of organizations that have adopted agile methods in India, we highlight the importance of senior leadership vision, mentoring, and personnel selection in creating an environment that will support successful agile adoption. Furthermore, we highlight the importance of building strong teams, managing customer expectations and driving process excellence as key for successful adoption.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2010. p. 125-130
Series
ISEC'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 India Software Engineering Conference
Keywords [en]
Agile methods, Case study, Outsourcing, Software process improvement, Customer expectation, Development approach, Global clients, Lessons learned, Operational aspects, Organizational capabilities, Organizational designs, Plan-based, Process Improvement, Software development, Software organization, Enterprise resource management, Personnel selection, Research, Societies and institutions, Software design, Computer software
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-20811DOI: 10.1145/1730874.1730898Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-77951482056ISBN: 9781605589220 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-20811DiVA, id: diva2:638611
Conference
2010 3rd India Software Engineering Conference, ISEC'10, 25 February 2010 through 27 February 2010, Mysore
2013-07-312013-07-312013-12-03Bibliographically approved