Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: What Makes Agile Software Development Agile?   Together with many success stories, promises such as the increase in
production speed and the improvement in stakeholders' collaboration have
contributed to making agile a transformation in the software industry in which
many companies want to take part. However, driven either by a natural and
expected evolution or by contextual factors that challenge the adoption of
agile methods as prescribed by their creator(s), software processes in practice
mutate into hybrids over time. Are these still agile? In this article, we
investigate the question: what makes a software development method agile? We
present an empirical study grounded in a large-scale international survey that
aims to identify software development methods and practices that improve or
tame agility. Based on 556 data points, we analyze the perceived degree of
agility in the implementation of standard project disciplines and its relation
to used development methods and practices. Our findings suggest that only a
small number of participants operate their projects in a purely traditional or
agile manner (under 15%). That said, most project disciplines and most
practices show a clear trend towards increasing degrees of agility. Compared to
the methods used to develop software, the selection of practices has a stronger
effect on the degree of agility of a given discipline. Finally, there are no
methods or practices that explicitly guarantee or prevent agility. We conclude
that agility cannot be defined solely at the process level. Additional factors
need to be taken into account when trying to implement or improve agility in a
software company. Finally, we discuss the field of software process-related
research in the light of our findings and present a roadmap for future
research.

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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph