Beneficial and Harmful Agile Practices for Product Quality
This helps companies, especially in regulated domains, select Agile practices to improve product quality, though it is incremental as it builds on existing survey data.
The study tackled the problem of understanding how Agile practices affect product quality by analyzing survey data, finding that 36 out of 49 practices were perceived as beneficial and 4 as harmful.
There is the widespread belief that Agile neglects the product quality. This lack of understanding how Agile processes assure the quality of the product prevents especially companies from regulated domains from an adoption of Agile. This work aims to identify which Agile Practices contribute towards product quality. Hence, data from a survey study is analyzed to identify Ag-ile Practices which are beneficial or harmful for the quality of the product. From 49 practices that were used in the survey so far, 36 were perceived to have a positive impact on product quality, while four practices were rated as being harmful. The results enrich understanding of how product quality can be achieved in Agile, and support selection of practices to improve quality.