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Non-technical individual skills are weakly connected to the maturity of agile practices
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- Gren, Lucas, 1984 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik (GU),Department of Computer Science and Engineering (GU)
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- Knauss, Alessia, 1983 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik (GU),Department of Computer Science and Engineering (GU)
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- Stettina, Christoph Johann (author)
- Universiteit Leiden (UL),Leiden University (UL)
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- Elsevier BV, 2018
- 2018
- English.
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In: Information and Software Technology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0950-5849. ; 99, s. 11-20
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- Context: Existing knowledge in agile software development suggests that individual competency (e.g. skills) is a critical success factor for agile projects. While assuming that technical skills are important for every kind of software development project, many researchers suggest that non-technical individual skills are especially important in agile software development. Objective: In this paper, we investigate whether non-technical individual skills can predict the use of agile practices. Method: Through creating a set of multiple linear regression models using a total of 113 participants from agile teams in six software development organizations from The Netherlands and Brazil, we analyzed the predictive power of non-technical individual skills in relation to agile practices. Results: The results show that there is surprisingly low power in using non-technical individual skills to predict (i.e. explain variance in) the mature use of agile practices in software development. Conclusions: Therefore, we conclude that looking at non-technical individual skills is not the optimal level of analysis when trying to understand, and explain, the mature use of agile practices in the software development context. We argue that it is more important to focus on the non-t echnical skills as a team-level capacity instead of assuring that all individuals possess such skills when understanding the use of the agile practices.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Programvaruteknik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Software Engineering (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap -- Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Media and Communications -- Information Systems, Social aspects (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Lärande (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Educational Sciences -- Learning (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Empirical study
- Code quality
- Skills
- Agile practices
- Agile practices
- Code quality
- Empirical study
- Skills
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