The Adoption of Agile Processes in Large Web Development Enterprises: A Survey in Jordan

Agile processes can be applied to any software process for effective response to changing requirements during the development process and effective communication among stakeholders. There is lack of surveys related to agile processes in large web development enterprises in the world and the current state of adoption of agile processes by large enterprises is still unknown. A survey has been conducted in this research based on questionnaire and interviews in five large Jordanian enterprises to examine the process models adopted by these enterprises, the extent to which these enterprises are using agile processes, and finally to examine the problems associated with large web applications’ development. The results of this survey showed that there is a weakness in adoption of agile processes in large Jordanian enterprises and the Extreme Programming (XP) is well known agile process by the developers working in these enterprises. According to survey results, we suggested recommendations related to adoption of XP agile process in large enterprises.