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The presented study examines the prevailing espoused values of some of the most successful software organizations and evaluates the extent to which they are promoted in the agile ideology. Its objective is to determine the level of value congruence and whether it could be used to further explain the widespread adoption of agile software development. Its findings reveal a perfect match between the prevailing espoused values of the examined global software leaders and the agile ideology, and suggest that the popularity of the agile methods might be explained through their capability to increase customer value, facilitate collaboration and teamwork, secure continuous improvement and ensure high quality of delivered products and services.
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Stavru, S., Ilieva, S. (2015). Agile and the Global Software Leaders: A Perfect Match?. In: Lassenius, C., Dingsøyr, T., Paasivaara, M. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 212. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_22
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