Agile cultural challenges in Europe and Asia: Insights from practitioners

Hajer Ayed; Benoit Vanderose; Naji Habra

doi:10.1109/icse-seip.2017.33

Agile cultural challenges in Europe and Asia: Insights from practitioners

Hajer Ayed, Benoit Vanderose, Naji Habra

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Abstract

The challenges of adopting agile software development methods vary from one context to another. This work investigates how the European and Asian cultural backgrounds may impact agile practices adoption. The focus is on three countries: Belgium, Malaysia and Singapore. We gathered data about practices, challenges and impediments encountered by software development teams from interviews of 19 practitioners and two agile software development events (discussion groups). The results of the analysis are prioritized and discussed using the Hofstede Model for national cultures comparison. The identified hypotheses can serve as a guidance for contextual agile practices improvement. The results need to be considered carefully since more empirical data are required to confirm the practitioners' opinion. In fact, studying socio-cultural differences is sensitive. Yet such information may be valuable for onshore teams (culturally homogeneous) as well as teams working on globally distributed projects.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering
Subtitle of host publication	Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE-SEIP 2017
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	153-162
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538627174
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/icse-seip.2017.33
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2017
Event	39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE-SEIP 2017 - Buenos Aires, Argentina Duration: 20 May 2017 → 28 May 2017

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Name	2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track (ICSE-SEIP)

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Conference	39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE-SEIP 2017
Country/Territory	Argentina
City	Buenos Aires
Period	20/05/17 → 28/05/17

Keywords

Agile Software Development
Challenges
Cultural Differences
Process Improvement

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Ayed, H., Vanderose, B., & Habra, N. (2017). Agile cultural challenges in Europe and Asia: Insights from practitioners. In Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE-SEIP 2017 (pp. 153-162). Article 7965439 (2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track (ICSE-SEIP)). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/icse-seip.2017.33

Ayed, Hajer ; Vanderose, Benoit ; Habra, Naji. / Agile cultural challenges in Europe and Asia : Insights from practitioners. Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE-SEIP 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. pp. 153-162 (2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track (ICSE-SEIP)).

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Ayed, H , Vanderose, B & Habra, N 2017, Agile cultural challenges in Europe and Asia: Insights from practitioners. in Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE-SEIP 2017., 7965439, 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track (ICSE-SEIP), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 153-162, 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE-SEIP 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 20/05/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/icse-seip.2017.33

Agile cultural challenges in Europe and Asia: Insights from practitioners. / Ayed, Hajer ; Vanderose, Benoit ; Habra, Naji.
Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE-SEIP 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 153-162 7965439 (2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track (ICSE-SEIP)).

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Ayed H , Vanderose B , Habra N. Agile cultural challenges in Europe and Asia: Insights from practitioners. In Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track, ICSE-SEIP 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017. p. 153-162. 7965439. (2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice Track (ICSE-SEIP)). doi: 10.1109/icse-seip.2017.33

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