| dc.description.abstract | Context: In the past two decades, an increasing number of software development
teams have been transitioning to agile. As a result, a need has emerged for measuring
how agile these teams are. To satisfy this need, many researchers have created their own
agile measurement tools. However, none of the tools managed to provide a substantial
solution.
Objective: Many tools have been created for measuring the agility of software development
teams, thus creating a saturation in the eld. Three tools were selected in order
to validate whether they will yield similar results. These tools were the Perceptive Agile
Measurement (PAM), the Team Agility Assessment (TAA) and the Objectives Principles
Strategies (OPS).
Method: The surveys for the three tools were given to the four software development
teams of Company A. The survey questions were grouped into agile practices which
were checked for correlation in order to establish convergent validity. In addition, we
checked whether the questions identi ed to be the same among the tools would would
be given the same replies by the respondents. Moreover, the coverage of agile practices
was analysed by checking which tool covers more agile practices. The results were used
to see whether the three tools yield similar results.
Results: The correlations of the data gathered were very few and very low. As a
result, convergent validity could not be established. In addition, the questions which
were identi ed as the same among the tools did not have the same answers from the
respondents. Moreover, Objectives Principles Strategies (OPS) was the tool covering the
most agile practices. All the above provide evidence that the three tools do not yield
similar results.
Conclusion: We conclude that the area of measuring agility is still fertile and more
work needs to be done. Based on the various agile practices covered by each tool, we
believe that not all tools are applicable to every team but they should be selected on
the basis of how a team has transitioned to agile. This study has set a milestone in the
area and pinpoints the need for a better way to measure agility. | sv |
