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Agile Software Development and Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review

Tomi Juhola, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Ville Leppänen, Tuomas Mäkilä, Agile Software Development and Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Proceedings of 6th ISPIM Innovation Symposium: Innovation in the Asian century, 1–19, ISPIM, 2013.

http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/2.1.1046.3049

Abstract:

Agile software development methods have been argued to enable innovation in software development. However, the existing research is scattered and further work would benefit from a common baseline. This study presents a systematic literature review on the broad theme of agile methods and innovations. By using an automatic search strategy for ten databases and complementing this search by a manual search strategy for the publication lists of the most active researcher in the field, 43 relevant articles were identified and included in this study. With a thematic synthesis, seven recurrent themes were identified. The results show that while the adoption of agile methods as innovations is well-understood, the agile methods effect on the innovation capabilities of a development team needs further work. Furthermore, the article shows that manual search strategy focused on the publication lists of the active authors is useful in literature studies on dispersed and little researched topics.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpJuHyLeMx13a,
  title = {Agile Software Development and Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 6th ISPIM Innovation Symposium: Innovation in the Asian century},
  author = {Juhola, Tomi and Hyrynsalmi, Sami and Leppänen, Ville and Mäkilä, Tuomas},
  publisher = {ISPIM},
  pages = {1–19},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {Agile software development; innovation management; process im-provement; collaborative innovation; innovation capability; product innovation; systematic literature review},
}

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