Quality culture boosts agile transformation : Action research in a business‐to‐business software business
Saarikallio, M., & Tyrväinen, P. (2023). Quality culture boosts agile transformation : Action research in a business‐to‐business software business. Journal of Software, 35(1), Article e2504. https://doi.org/10.1002/smr.2504
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Journal of SoftwarePäivämäärä
2023Tekijänoikeudet
© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Agile methodologies are sometimes adopted, with the assumption that benefits can be attained by only using a set of best practices, which can sometimes work to a degree. In this paper, a case is discussed where a software-producing organization of seven teams achieved significant improvements. The goal of the research was to answer two questions: how an already agile organization could improve its performance further and what is the impact of promoting quality aspects? The questions were answered by implementing interventions based on prior literature and data emerging from semi-structured interviews. The context was an established business with a complex revenue stream structure, meaning the mix of various project/service/product based work rendered the adoption of agile methods a challenge. Action research comprising three rounds of interventions was conducted to improve the organization and its quality culture while enforcing code review practices. Interventions resulted in a significant improvement in quality, as measured by reported defects. Therefore, it is suggested that agile methods are not sufficient on their own to take software business forward unless a quality-focused culture is simultaneously achieved through a mindset change and organizational structures to enforce quality practices. The paper contributes to research on the managerial practices of software business and agile transformation by providing empirical support to introducing formal quality improvement to the agile mix as a method for practitioners to improve organizations with complex business models and multiple teams.
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