Understanding Agile Software Development Assimilation Beyond Acceptance

Agile software development methods represent a departure from the heavily regimented and document-driven procedures of traditional, waterfall approaches. Despite the highly touted benefits of employing agile ISD methods and the growth of agile adoption rates over the past two decades, it is not clear why some organizations fail to routinize agile methods, while others do so and realize their promised benefits. Motivated by the need to understand the factors that influence agile routinization, this study empirically examines the deep contextual factors that impact the extent to which agile methods are proliferated throughout an organization. Findings indicate that project success from initial agile use does not translate to routine agile use. Instead, findings from the study suggest that organizational factors of organizational culture and structure play a pivotal role in the routinization of agile methods.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Business

Grantor

Information Systems and Decision Sciences

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Baham, Corey Wayne

• routinization
• Systematic literature review
• agile software development
• agile assimilation
• research synthesis
• agile software methodologies
• theory
• theoretical perspectives
• information systems
• post-adoptive use

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Identifier

etd-03032016-181315
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/19

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oai:repository.lsu.edu:gradschool_dissertations-1018