Abstract:
Traditional software development and management methodologies are not well suited
for today because the improvements to the area of software development, emerging
technologies, and ever changing business requirements.
The success factors affect in continuation of agile software development approaches
may not be the same as that of migration. It may differ from countiy to country or
may even for among different organizations depending on its inhabited culture.
In Sri Lanka, some IT organizations yet mange software development projects with
traditional approaches like Waterfall method. Hopefully those organizations will
adopt Agile software development practices in future.
This study consist of a pilot survey which interviews project managers from different
IT organizations followed by a questionnaire prepared from the knowledge acquired
by both the literature review and the pilot survey to software professionals. The data
from the quantitative survey will then analyze with statistical methods to find out the
critical success factors.
The critical success factors which are going to find in this research would help for the
organizations migrating to Agile methodologies to apply the changes in efficient and
effective manner.
