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EuroSPI 2013: Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement pp 237–246Cite as

Evidence of Agile Adoption in Software Organizations: An Empirical Survey

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This paper aims at empirically investigating the levels of agile adoption by software development organizations in comparison with the type of practices followed, the business sectors and the countries of origin, as well as revealing the geographical organization and distribution of teams both within agile and traditional development environments. Through a dedicated survey conducted, the paper also discovers, analyzes and presents the business strategies, levels of expertise, benefits and concerns of agile adoption within the various participating organizations. The results obtained indicate that agile methods seem to offer opportunities for improved products in terms of quality and suggest a number of critical factors that affect the software process and the adoption of agile methods in general.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Efi Papatheocharous

  2. SICS Swedish ICT, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Stockholm, Sweden

    Efi Papatheocharous

  3. Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus

    Andreas S. Andreou

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  1. Regulated Software Research Group, Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland

    Fergal McCaffery

  2. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  3. ISCN, Graz, Austria

    Richard Messnarz

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Papatheocharous, E., Andreou, A.S. (2013). Evidence of Agile Adoption in Software Organizations: An Empirical Survey. In: McCaffery, F., O’Connor, R.V., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 364. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39179-8_21

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