This book explores how agile development practices, in particular pair programming, code review and automated testing, help software development teams to perform better. Agile software engineering has become the standard software development paradigm over the last decade, and the insights provided here are taken from a large-scale survey of 80 professional software development teams working at SAP SE in Germany. In addition, the book introduces a novel measurement tool for assessing the performance of software development teams. No previous study has researched this topic with a similar data set comprising insights from more than 450 professional software engineers.

Provides unique insights into how agile practices influence the work mode and performance of software development teams Presents a novel approach to measuring the performance of agile software development teams Based on a large-scale study of unparalleled scope, with insights from more than 450 professional software engineers Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Christoph Schmidt is an IT consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. From 2011-2014, he worked as a researcher in a joint research project of the Business School of the University of Mannheim and SAP SE. During this time, he conducted empirical studies on agile software engineering, software development team performance and large-scale software development projects. His study results were published in various international conferences including the International Conference on Information Systems and the IEEE International Conference of Software Engineering.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Agile Software Development.- Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations.- Research Methodology.- Empirical Validation.- Discussion.- Conclusion.