TY - GEN

T1 - How Agile Are you?

T2 - 49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2023

AU - Vasylieva, Kseniia

AU - Kuhrmann, Marco

AU - Xavier, Meenu Kadavilveetil

AU - Klunder, Jil

N1 - Funding Information: This work is partly funded by the German Aerospace Center (Project: ANuKI, funding number: 50RM2100A).

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - With the emergence of agile software development methods, new approaches for determining agile maturity have become necessary. Other than for traditional maturity and capability models like CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504, the field of agile maturity models is not yet settled. Even worse, a common understanding regarding agility in general and the levels of agility in particular is missing. The paper at hand aims to shed light on the field of agile maturity models with a particular focus on maturity levels, their definition, and their evaluation and computation. We conducted a systematic literature review to extract maturity levels and provide an initial harmonization of the levels found. Our findings from analyzing 19 agile maturity models show that there is yet no agreement with regard to the maturity levels. In total, 69 maturity levels have been analyzed for harmonization opportunities. Two major dimensions of maturity levels of agile maturity models could be identified: (1) team-related and (2) general maturity, which is comparable to standard approaches. However, the procedures to assess organizations and processes, if at all present, are to a large extent focused on persons and their personal opinion, which paves the way for future research, e.g., in terms of developing measurement systems for assessing agile maturity.

AB - With the emergence of agile software development methods, new approaches for determining agile maturity have become necessary. Other than for traditional maturity and capability models like CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504, the field of agile maturity models is not yet settled. Even worse, a common understanding regarding agility in general and the levels of agility in particular is missing. The paper at hand aims to shed light on the field of agile maturity models with a particular focus on maturity levels, their definition, and their evaluation and computation. We conducted a systematic literature review to extract maturity levels and provide an initial harmonization of the levels found. Our findings from analyzing 19 agile maturity models show that there is yet no agreement with regard to the maturity levels. In total, 69 maturity levels have been analyzed for harmonization opportunities. Two major dimensions of maturity levels of agile maturity models could be identified: (1) team-related and (2) general maturity, which is comparable to standard approaches. However, the procedures to assess organizations and processes, if at all present, are to a large extent focused on persons and their personal opinion, which paves the way for future research, e.g., in terms of developing measurement systems for assessing agile maturity.

KW - agile maturity models

KW - capability and maturity models

KW - Software development

KW - software process

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85183320257&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/SEAA60479.2023.00049

DO - 10.1109/SEAA60479.2023.00049

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85183320257

SN - 9798350342369

T3 - Proceedings - 2023 49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2023

SP - 270

EP - 277

BT - Proceedings 2023 49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)

PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Y2 - 6 September 2023 through 8 September 2023

ER -