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Relationships between IT department culture and agile software development practices: An empirical investigation

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  • Gupta, Manjul
  • George, Joey F.
  • Xia, Weidong

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IT department culture has been widely recognized as an important factor that influences the adoption of agile practices. Yet, the research pertaining to the relationship between IT department culture and agile practices usage remains underexplored. This study proposes and tests the relationships between four competing cultural forms and two types of agile practices - social and technical. The findings contribute to the extant literature by integrating the competing values model of culture into the literature on factors affecting agile development at the IT department level.

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  • Gupta, Manjul & George, Joey F. & Xia, Weidong, 2019. "Relationships between IT department culture and agile software development practices: An empirical investigation," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 13-24.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ininma:v:44:y:2019:i:c:p:13-24
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.09.006
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