Concerns and Limitations in Agile Software Development: A Survey with Paraguayan Companies

TL;DR

This survey investigates the adoption, concerns, and barriers of agile software development in Paraguayan companies, revealing reliability concerns and lack of experience as primary issues.

Contribution

It provides the first focused analysis of agile adoption in Paraguay, highlighting specific local concerns and barriers compared to global studies.

Findings

44.44% of companies are concerned about product quality reliability.

66.66% cite lack of experience as a main barrier.

Only 17% of surveyed companies responded.

Abstract

This year, the Agile Manifesto completes seventeen years and, throughout the world, companies and researchers seek to understand their adoption stage, as well as the benefits, barriers, and limitations of agile methods. Although we have some studies and questionnaire data at the global level, we know little about how the Paraguayan software community is adopting agile methods. The present work conducted a research to set up the current stage of adoption, initial concerns and barriers of implementation of agile methods in software development companies in Paraguay. An online survey was sent to representatives of 53 Paraguayan companies. Of these, 9 (17%) companies responded. The concern about adopting more agile methods (44.44% of respondents) was the lack of reliability in product quality if developed using agile methods. The main barrier was the lack of experience (66.66%) of the companies.