TY - GEN
T1 - Perceptive agile measurement
T2 - 10th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, XP 2009
AU - So, Chaehan
AU - Scholl, Wolfgang
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Rising interest on social-psychological effects of agile practices necessitate the development of appropriate measurement instruments for future quantitative studies. This study has constructed such instruments for eight agile practices, namely iteration planning, iterative development, continuous integration and testing, stand-up meetings, customer access, customer acceptance tests, retrospectives and co-location. The methodological approach followed the scale construction process elaborated in psychological research. We applied both qualitative methods for item generation, and quantitative methods for the analysis of reliability and factor structure (principal factor analysis) to evaluate critical psychometric dimensions. Results in both qualitative and quantitative analyses indicated high psychometric quality of all newly constructed scales. The resulting measurement instruments are available in questionnaire form and ready to be used in future scientific research for quantitative analyses of social-psychological effects of agile practices.
AB - Rising interest on social-psychological effects of agile practices necessitate the development of appropriate measurement instruments for future quantitative studies. This study has constructed such instruments for eight agile practices, namely iteration planning, iterative development, continuous integration and testing, stand-up meetings, customer access, customer acceptance tests, retrospectives and co-location. The methodological approach followed the scale construction process elaborated in psychological research. We applied both qualitative methods for item generation, and quantitative methods for the analysis of reliability and factor structure (principal factor analysis) to evaluate critical psychometric dimensions. Results in both qualitative and quantitative analyses indicated high psychometric quality of all newly constructed scales. The resulting measurement instruments are available in questionnaire form and ready to be used in future scientific research for quantitative analyses of social-psychological effects of agile practices.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:66749167616
SN - 9783642018527
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 83
EP - 93
BT - Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming - 10th International Conference, XP 2009, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 25 May 2009 through 29 May 2009
ER -