Concerns and Limitations in Agile Software Development: A Survey with Paraguayan Companies
This work addresses the adoption challenges of agile methods for software companies in Paraguay, but it is incremental as it applies existing survey methods to a new regional context.
The study surveyed Paraguayan software companies to assess their adoption stage and identify concerns and barriers to implementing agile methods, finding that 44.44% of respondents worried about product quality reliability and 66.66% cited lack of experience as the main barrier.
This year, the Agile Manifesto completes seventeen years and, throughout the world, companies and researchers seek to understand their adoption stage, as well as the benefits, barriers, and limitations of agile methods. Although we have some studies and questionnaire data at the global level, we know little about how the Paraguayan software community is adopting agile methods. The present work conducted a research to set up the current stage of adoption, initial concerns and barriers of implementation of agile methods in software development companies in Paraguay. An online survey was sent to representatives of 53 Paraguayan companies. Of these, 9 (17%) companies responded. The concern about adopting more agile methods (44.44% of respondents) was the lack of reliability in product quality if developed using agile methods. The main barrier was the lack of experience (66.66%) of the companies.