TY - JOUR
T1 - Theories in agile software development
T2 - past, present, and future introduction to the XP 2020 special section
AU - Stray, Viktoria
AU - Hoda, Rashina
AU - Paasivaara, Maria
AU - Lenarduzzi, Valentina
AU - Mendez, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to express our gratitude to the reviewers for the valuable reviews and the authors for their great efforts. Thanks also to Jeffrey Carver, IST Editor, for his excellent help in preparing this special section.
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PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Over the last two decades, agile software development has gained popularity among software engineering researchers and practitioners. However, the development and use of theories in agile research remain relatively low. While analyzing publications on agile software development in the Scopus database from the last decade, we found that only 7% of the papers used or developed a theory. This trend seems stable. However, it is promising that most theory-centric studies use or propose theories to address cognitive and behavioral aspects of people working in agile development. We argue that these aspects build fundamental pillars in agile software development. In this special section, we introduce extended versions of four papers selected from the XP2020 Conference. These papers make valuable contributions to aspects of learning and behavior in agile software development. We encourage researchers to be more theory-centric in their future empirical studies of agile methods and practices by familiarizing themselves with existing theories and applying and developing theories. This way, they can contribute to a reliable, evidence-based body of knowledge in our community.
AB - Over the last two decades, agile software development has gained popularity among software engineering researchers and practitioners. However, the development and use of theories in agile research remain relatively low. While analyzing publications on agile software development in the Scopus database from the last decade, we found that only 7% of the papers used or developed a theory. This trend seems stable. However, it is promising that most theory-centric studies use or propose theories to address cognitive and behavioral aspects of people working in agile development. We argue that these aspects build fundamental pillars in agile software development. In this special section, we introduce extended versions of four papers selected from the XP2020 Conference. These papers make valuable contributions to aspects of learning and behavior in agile software development. We encourage researchers to be more theory-centric in their future empirical studies of agile methods and practices by familiarizing themselves with existing theories and applying and developing theories. This way, they can contribute to a reliable, evidence-based body of knowledge in our community.
KW - agile software development
KW - grounded theory
KW - review
KW - theories
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137391725&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.infsof.2022.107058
DO - 10.1016/j.infsof.2022.107058
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85137391725
SN - 0950-5849
VL - 152
JO - Information and Software Technology
JF - Information and Software Technology
M1 - 107058
ER -