Practices of De-Motivators in Adopting Agile Software Development Methods at Large Scale Development Teams From Management Perspective

Abstract

During the last few decades, agile methodologies have become the most widely used software development methods. Agile methodologies provide great customer satisfaction and fast product delivery at the low cost. The low cost and customer satisfaction make agile methods highly attractive. Agile methods were designed and used, in its early days, for small-scale projects. There are many challenges in applying agile methods for large-scale projects as determined by some previous studies. The objective of this research is to identify the practices of De-motivators in adopting agile projects at a large scale from management point of view by employing a systematic literature review (SLR).In the review process, a total of 72 practices were discovered. De-motivator factors have been identified and ranked, through the analytical hierarchical process, through SLR in our previous study (Abrar et al., 2020). Analytical hierarchical processing (AHP) is a well-known method used for multi-criteria decisions implemented by Satty (2023). In this study AHP is used to prioritize de-motivators and their categories based on their relative importance. The prioritized de-motivators and their categories provide a strong background to the software project manager and practitioners for adopting Agile Software Development in large-scale projects.

Keywords

• Agile software development
• agile transformation
• adopting agile methodologies
• de-motivators
• large-scale agile
• practices