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A Paradoxical Perspective on Contradictions in Agile Software Development

Wang, Xiaofeng
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O'Conchuir, Eoin
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Vidgen, Richard
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1582
 https://doi.org/10.13025/21789
Publication Date
2008
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Contradiction, Paradox, Agile methods, Planning, Process, Enterprise Agility
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Wang, X., E. O'Conchuir and R. Vidgen (2008): "A Paradoxical Perspective on Contradictions in Agile Software Development", in the Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Information Systems, Galway, June 9-11.
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An ongoing debate on agile methods focuses on the contradictions in software development, especially responding to change vs. following a plan, and people vs. processes. Unlike the ¿either-or¿ perspective adopted in the existing agile literature, this paper introduces a paradoxical view on the contradictions in agile software development and uses two agile processes to illustrate it, arguing that a paradoxical perspective can help to gain a better understanding of the nature of and ways of dealing with the contradictions in agile software development. Taking a paradoxical perspective on responding to change vs. following a plan, and people vs. processes, this paper reveals that an agile process is a planning-driven process geared to responding to change, and it is a process that provides a supporting structure for people to learn and to improve their competences.
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