On Process Tailoring - An Agile Example

Abstract

Over the past few years, numerous organizations have realized the benefits of successfully adoption of the Agile Practices. Therefore, many organizations are now seeking to adopt the agile way of working, but how they can proceed with this adoption? Unfortunately, there is no existence of a structured approach for agile adoption, which is widely deployed and proved by the industry, that suites different organizational structures and can constitute a silver bullet that can maintain a focus on rapid delivery of business values, produces a qualitative software, satisfies the customers’ needs, and can help on solving the humanity issues and other factors in different Organizational Cultures. The main problem addressed by this paper is the absence of research that addressing the validity of Agile Software Development as a silver bullet which comes from the absence of guidance to adopt the Agile Practices in different organizational cultures and structures. Therefore, the organizations have problems of selecting and adopting the suitable Agile Practices. In this paper we are introducing a simple framework (Three-Step) for agile adoption in different Organizational Cultures that needs a repeatable assessment of the used practices in each project in order to be able to tailor the possible Agile Practices.