Challenges and Success Factors for Large-scale Agile Transformations
Maria Paasivaara, Casper Lassenius · 2016
Agile methods have become an appealing alternative for large companies striving to improve their performance, even though the methods were originally designed for small, single teams. Our recently performed systematic literature review on large-scale agile transformations revealed that despite the popularity of the topic in the industry, it has received very little research attention, as almost 90% of the selected papers were experience reports. In our literature study, we identified 35 challenges grouped into nine categories, and 29 success factors grouped into eleven categories.