Selecting a Research Topic
In this Individual Assignment, you will select a final research topic and submit it for approval by your Faculty Member. Approval by your faculty member will confirm that your topic is relevant, meaningful and feasible and that you can continue working on developing this topic. Non-approval by your faculty member will signal that you will have to continue refining the topic - you should return to the criteria for selecting the right topic above - using the feedback provided by your faculty member on how to refine your topic.
My Research Topic
'Cultural Challenges in Adopting Scrum Methodology'
To complete this Individual Assignment:
- State your research topic as clearly and concisely as possible.
- Use the articles that you found and which relate to your topic to put your topic in context.
- Include 2-3 paragraphs on why this topic is important to you and your purpose in choosing it.
- Cite research literature you have found that has helped you select or refine your topic.
The research literature that I have found:
- McElfish, S. S. (2011). Identifying Cultural Changes Necessary in Traditional Plan-Driven Software Development Organizations when Preparing to Adopt Agile Principles. Available at: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/11390/McElfish-2011.pdf?sequence=1 (accessed: 07/10/2016)
- Dybå, Tore, and Torgeir Dingsøyr. "Empirical studies of agile software development: A systematic review." Information and software technology 50.9 (2008): 833-859.
- Misra, S., Kumar, V., & Kumar, U. (2009). Identifying some important success factors in adopting agile software development practices. Journal of Systems and Software, 82(11),1869-1890. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.05.052
- The Top 3 challenges companies face during the transition, availableat:https://www.scrumalliance.org/employer-resources/the-top-
3-challenges-companies-face-during-the-tra
- Sander Bannink, (No Date), ‘Challenges in the Transition from Waterfall to Scrum - a Casestudy at Portbase'
- Chan, F., & Thong, J. (2008). Acceptance of agile methodologies: A critical review and conceptual framework. Decision Support Systems, 46(4), 803-814.doi: 10.1016/j.dss.2008.11.009
- Strode, D., Huff, S., &Tretiakov, A. (2009). The impact of organizational culture on agile method use. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,Waikoloa, HI, 42, 1 - 9. doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2009.952.
- Sutharshan, A., &Maj, P. S. (2011). Enhancing Agile methods for multi-cultural software project teams. Modern Applied Science, 5(1), 12.Available at:http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/mas/article/viewFile/8689/6738 (accessed: 07/10/2016)
- Tolfo, C. &Wazlawick, R. S. (2008). The influence of organizational culture on the adoption ofextreme programming. The Journal of Systems and Software, 8, 1955-1967.
- JanVlietland,RinivanSolingen,HansvanVliet (2016). ‘Aligning codependent Scrum teams to enable fast business value delivery: A governance framework and set of intervention actions' The Journal of Systems and Software 113 (2016) 418-429
- VikashLalsing, SomveerKishnah and SameerchandPudaruth(2012). ‘People Factors in Agile Software Development and Project management.'International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA), Vol.3, No.1, January 2012
- SANTIAGO MATALONGA*, MARTÍN SOLARI and GERARDO MATTURRO (2013), ‘Factors affecting Distributed Agile Projects: A Systematic Review' International Journal of Software Engineeringand Knowledge Engineering Vol. 23, No. 9 (2013) 1289-1301
- TaghiJavdaniGandomani, HazuraZulzalil, Abdul Azim Abdul Ghani, Abu Bakar Md. Sultan and KhaironiYatim Sharif, (2014) ‘How Human Aspects Impress Agile Software Development Transition and Adoption.'International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications Vol.8, No.1 (2014), pp.129-148