@inproceedings{5e2734b84c034a848a3c46c918b2d290,
title = "Influence of software product management maturity on usage of artefacts in agile software development",
abstract = "Context: Agile software development (ASD) uses {\textquoteleft}agile{\textquoteright} artefacts such as user stories and product backlogs as well as {\textquoteleft}non-agile{\textquoteright} artefacts, for instance designs and test plans. Rationales for incorporating especially non-agile artefacts by an agile team mainly remain unknown territory. Goal: We start off to explore influences on artefacts usage, and state our research question as: To what extent does maturity relate to the usage of artefacts in ASD in software product organizations? Method: In our multiple case study 14 software product organizations were visited where software product management maturity was rated and their artefacts usage listed. Results: We found maturity to be negatively correlated with the non-agile/all artefacts ratio. In other words, the more mature software product management is, the fewer non-agile artefacts are used in ASD. Conclusions: This suggests that an organizational factor influences an agile team in its artefacts usage, contradictory to the concept of self-organizing agile teams.",
keywords = "Agile, Artefacts, Maturity, Software product management",
author = "Gerard Wagenaar and S.J. Overbeek and G.G. Lucassen and S. Brinkkemper and K. Schneider",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-69925-7",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "19--27",
editor = "M. Felderer and {M{\'e}ndez Fern{\'a}ndez}, D. and B. Turhan and M. Kalinowski and F. Sarro and D. Winkler",
booktitle = "Product-Focused Software Process Improvement",
}