Fit between Agile practices and organizational cultures
Panuchart Bunyakiati, Panita Surachaikulwattana · 2016
Software engineering methodology such as Agile, establishes the governance of software development. Over the years, a number of Agile practices have been invented. These practices are built on the same Agile principles but emphasise on different rationales and values, and thus associated with various approaches, activities and artefacts. Given this variety, and necessity for organizations to incorporate Agile, many studies have attempted to examine the relationship between organizational attributes, particularly organizational culture, and Agile practices, which in configurations result in effective outcomes of software development. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework that deals with an alternative way in which organizations identify their cultural types, and understand underlying principles of each Agile practice in order to form the fit between organizational culture and Agile. In other words, organizations do not necessarily change their current culture in order to use Agile effectively, as existing studies suggested. Rather, they select the Agile practice that fits with their cultural type. This framework is based on interpretation of existing literature and systematic qualitative approaches.