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Organisational Culture in Agile Software Development

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Recently a number of so-called “agile” software development methods have been proposed. Interestingly, these approaches have been met with “both enthusiastic support and equally vigorous criticism” among experts in the field. At present the software engineering community is split, and seemingly irreconcilable “schools of thought” have emerged. In this paper we identify an important characteristic of any software engineering method: its set of tacit basic assumptions. We retrieve some important basic assumption that underly agile software development and discuss an example to illustrate in detail how conflicting basic assumptions can lead to fundamental disagreement about software development methods.

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  1. ASSET GmbH, Am Flasdieck 5, 46147, Oberhausen, Germany

    Peter Wendorff

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  1. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014, Oulun yliopisto, Finland

    Markku Oivo

  2. VTT Electronics, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1100, 90571, Oulu, Finland

    Seija Komi-Sirviö

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Wendorff, P. (2002). Organisational Culture in Agile Software Development. In: Oivo, M., Komi-Sirviö, S. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2559. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36209-6_14

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