The state of agile development adoption in Argentine software companies

VERÓNICA A. BOLLATI; GERMÁN GAONA; LILIANA CUENCA PLETSH; SILVIO GONNET; HOARCIO P. LEONE

Córdoba

Congreso; XLIII Latin American Computer Conference; 2017

Agile development practices have been consolidated as an industry standard in recent years. Its fundamental stone was raised by professionals, who in 2001, made a manifesto where they proposed four values and twelve principles. Based on this manifesto emerged different initiatives such as: eXtreme Programming, Crystal Family, or Scrum and some more current as Continuous Integration and Delivery, DevOps, Managment 3.0 or Lean. Currently there are international industry reports showing an increasing adoption of these practices in teams of different size and characteristics. However, we have identified the lack of data about the degree to which companies in the region adopt these practices. With the objective of analyzing the state of practice of agility in the companies of the region, we have carried out an investigation by means of a survey. In this paper, we present the results of this survey and the main conclusions obtained from them.