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    Catching up with method and process practice: an industry-informed baseline for researchers
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Klünder, J.; Hebig, R.; Tell, P.; Kuhrmann, M.; Nakatumba-Nabende, J.; Heldal, R.; Krusche, S.; Fazal-Baqaie, M.; Felderer, M.; Bocco, M. F. G.; Küpper, S.; Licorish, S. A.; Lopez, G.; McCaffery, F.; Top, Ö. Ö.; Prause, C. R.; Prikladnicki, R.; Tüzün, Eray; Pfahl, D.; Schneider, K.; MacDonell, S. G.
    Software development methods are usually not applied by the book. Companies are under pressure to continuously deploy software products that meet market needs and stakeholders' requests. To implement efficient and effective development processes, companies utilize multiple frameworks, methods and practices, and combine these into hybrid methods. A common combination contains a rich management framework to organize and steer projects complemented with a number of smaller practices providing the development teams with tools to complete their tasks. In this paper, based on 732 data points collected through an international survey, we study the software development process use in practice. Our results show that 76.8% of the companies implement hybrid methods. Company size as well as the strategy in devising and evolving hybrid methods affect the suitability of the chosen process to reach company or project goals. Our findings show that companies that combine planned improvement programs with process evolution can increase their process' suitability by up to 5%.
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    What makes agile software development agile
    (IEEE, 2021-07-26) Kuhrmann, M.; Tell, P.; Hebig, R.; Klunder, J. A-C; Munch, J.; Linssen, O.; Pfahl, D.; Felderer, M.; Prause, C.; Macdonell, S.; Nakatumba-Nabende, J.; Raffo, D.; Beecham, S.; Tüzün, Eray; Lopez, G.; Paez, N.; Fontdevila, D.; Licorish, S.; Kupper, S.; Ruhe, G.; Knauss, E.; Özcan-Top, O.; Clarke, P.; Mc Caffery, F. H.; Genero, M.; Vizcaino, A.; Piattini, M.; Kalinowski, M.; Conte, T.; Prikladnicki, R.; Krusche, S.; Coşkunçay, A.; Scott, E.; Calefato, F.; Pimonova, S.; Pfeiffer, R-H; Schultz, U. P.; Heldal, R.; Fazal-Baqaie, M.; Anslow, C.; Nayebi, M.; Schneider, K.; Sauer, S.; Winkler, D.; Biffl, S.; Bastarrica, C.; Richardson, I.
    Together with many success stories, promises such as the increase in production speed and the improvement in stakeholders' collaboration have contributed to making agile a transformation in the software industry in which many companies want to take part. However, driven either by a natural and expected evolution or by contextual factors that challenge the adoption of agile methods as prescribed by their creator(s), software processes in practice mutate into hybrids over time. Are these still agile In this article, we investigate the question: what makes a software development method agile We present an empirical study grounded in a large-scale international survey that aims to identify software development methods and practices that improve or tame agility. Based on 556 data points, we analyze the perceived degree of agility in the implementation of standard project disciplines and its relation to used development methods and practices. Our findings suggest that only a small number of participants operate their projects in a purely traditional or agile manner (under 15%). That said, most project disciplines and most practices show a clear trend towards increasing degrees of agility. Compared to the methods used to develop software, the selection of practices has a stronger effect on the degree of agility of a given discipline. Finally, there are no methods or practices that explicitly guarantee or prevent agility. We conclude that agility cannot be defined solely at the process level. Additional factors need to be taken into account when trying to implement or improve agility in a software company. Finally, we discuss the field of software process-related research in the light of our findings and present a roadmap for future research.
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    Who is patriarchal? the correlates of patriarchy in Turkey
    (Routledge, 2021-05-25) Özdemir Sarıgil, Burcu; Sarıgil, Zeki
    This study provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of patriarchal attitudes and orientations in Turkey, a Muslim-majority country. The following questions direct the current study: What factors account for patriarchal orientations at the mass level? How do social, political, and economic differences relate to individuals’ patriarchal attitudes and orientations? The answers are provided by original data derived from a nationwide survey, Türkiye’de Enformel Kurumlar Anketi (TEKA 2019) [Informal Institutions in Turkey Survey] (Sarigil 2019). Multivariate analyses suggest that religiosity, Sunni sectarian identity, Kurdish ethnic identity, right-oriented ideological orientations, and low socio-economic status are likely to empower patriarchal tendencies. One major implication of the findings is that modernisation processes (e.g. socio-economic development and secularisation) are likely to undermine patriarchal orientations in Muslim-majority countries as well.