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ICGSE 2018
Sun 27 - Tue 29 May 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
co-located with * ICSE 2018 *
Tue 29 May 2018 16:45 - 17:05 at E2 room - Distinguished papers Chair(s): Darja Šmite

The adoption, scaling and tailoring of agile methods depends on several factors, such as the size of the software development organization, business goals, and operative model. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) was developed to support organizations in scaling agile practices across the enterprise.

Large multi-national enterprises report that adoption of SAFe led to significant productivity and quality gains. However, whether these benefits translate to small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is unknown.

As such, in this study we ask: To what extent can SAFe practices be implemented in a global SME? We administrated three surveys to members of the development organization of an Irish SME, to identify and evaluate the adoption rate of SAFe practices in the Global environment.

We found teams and program level personnel are transitioning well towards SAFe. But the Portfolio level personnel appear not to have, as yet, adopted many SAFe practices.

Our study suggests that in an SME context it might not be necessary for Portfolio level members to fully adopt SAFe providing they are supportive of their teams. The SAFe self-assessment did serve to highlight where training is required, to improve the vertical communication between teams, program level and upper management.

Tue 29 May

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15:45 - 17:15
Distinguished papersICGSE 2018 at E2 room
Chair(s): Darja Šmite Blekinge Institute of Technology
15:45
20m
Research paper
On Developers' Personality in Large-scale Distributed Projects: The Case of the Apache Ecosystem
ICGSE 2018
Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Giuseppe Iaffaldano University of Bari, Filippo Lanubile University of Bari, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University
DOI Pre-print
16:05
20m
Research paper
Virtual by Design: How a Work Environment can Support Agile Distributed Software Development
ICGSE 2018
Pernille Lous IT University of Copenhagen, Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, Christian Bo Michelsen IT University of Copenhagen, Yvonne Dittrich IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Marco Kuhrmann Clausthal University of Technology, Allan Ebdrup Debitoor
16:25
20m
Research paper
Team Resilience in Distributed Student Projects
ICGSE 2018
Igor Cavrak University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Ivana Bosnić University of Zagreb
16:45
20m
Research paper
Scaling Agile across the Global Organization: An Early Stage Industrial SAFe Self-Assessment
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Mohammad Abdur Razzak Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ita Richardson Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, John Noll University of East London, and Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre, Clodagh Nic Canna Ocuco Ltd, Sarah Beecham Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick
17:05
10m
Talk
Questions and answers
ICGSE 2018