Factors Influencing Agile Practices: A Survey

In the last decade agile methodologies have gained widespread popularity among the software community. Software practitioners across the globe are adopting agile methodologies to meet the challenges involved with turbulent business environment where requirements changes with time. Agile as name means flexibility is a group of various methodologies emphasizing the practice of Whole team, Short releases, Measures, Customer collaboration, Test-driven development, Pair programming and Refactoring. In this paper we have presented the results of a survey conducted online to show the various factors considered by software practitioners while adopting agile methodologies and the effects of practicing agile on their customers and business. On the basis of the results of questions asked in the survey we have drawn six hypotheses namely agile method popular among practitioners, Impact of team size, Impact of requirement gathering for agile methodologies, Effective requirement capturing method, Time taken to resolve a problem and Impact of small response time with customer on software development. The results of this research work clearly indicates adopting agile have increased the productivity of an organization while increasing customer satisfaction.