Agile Research Network Blogs

This blog from the Agile Research Network (ARN) summarises some insights from the CHASE conference (Co-operative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering; https://conf.researchr.org/home/chase-2024), held in Lisbon on 15th April 2024, and co-located with ICSE (International Conference on Software Engineering). In 2024 ICSE attracted over 2200 participants from 63 countries. 

Agile practitioners and scholars have engaged in much research to understand agile software teams and how they operate to support value-driven delivery of projects, services and business operations in agile organisations.

Based on the latest research paper from the agile Research Network (ARN), we will look at the challenges and resulting tensions those organisations encountered and the questions businesses can ask themselves before the transformation process begins to avoid or minimise these. The questions were developed using the lens of paradox theory.

Much has been researched and written about organisational agility, but what if you’re an organisation just starting out on your agile journey — how do you go about it?

Sustaining agile is something that has concerned us for a while at the Agile Research Network (ARN). Having surveyed practitioners, (Barroca et al 2018: Sustaining Agile Beyond Adoption - CORE) we realised that challenges around agile seemed to be moving away from the typical ‘how do we adopt agile?’ to ‘how do we keep agile going in the long term?’.