Publications

The Agile Research Network (ARN) publishes their work for academic and practitioner audiences. In this section we list our academic publications and our practitioner-focused white papers.

Practitioner Whitepapers and Publications

• Sharp, H., Barroca, L., Strode, D., Gregory, P. and Taylor, K. (2020) A strategy-focused agile transformation: planning simultaneously 50 years ahead and 5 minutes ahead, Agile Research Network
• Barroca, L., Sharp, H., Gregory, P., Taylor, K., AlQaisi, R. (2019) An Agile District Council in the Making: A Behaviour-led Transformation, Agile Research Network
• Gregory, P., AlQaisi, R., Kuusinen, K., Taylor, K., Sharp, H., Barroca, L. (2018) ‘Value in a Digital Services Project‘, Agile Research Network
• Deshpande, A., Sharp, H., Barroca, L., Gregory A., Taylor, K. 2018, ‘Remote Working in Agile software development: distributed, dispersed and hybrid teams’ Pocketbook, The Agile Research Network (ARN), The Agile Business Consortium.
• Kuusinen, K., Gregory, P., Sharp, H., Barroca, L., Taylor, K. (2016) ‘Knowledge Sharing in a Large Agile Organisation‘, Agile Research Network
• Sharp, H., Barroca, L., Deshpande, A., Gregory, P. and Taylor, K. (2016) ‘Remote working in an Agile team‘, Agile Research Network
• Sharp, H., Plonka, L., Gregory, P. and Taylor, K.J., and Rowlands M. (2015) ‘DSDM and UX Design Pocketbook‘, DSDM Consortium
• Gregory, P., Taylor K.J., Sharp, H., Barroca, L., and Salah, D. (2015) ‘From Performance to Value: Measuring in Agile‘, The Agile Research Network (ARN), DSDM Consortium.
• Plonka, L., Sharp, H., Barroca, L., Salah, D., Gregory, P. and Taylor, K.J. (2014) ‘Agile projects in a non-agile environment‘
• Sharp, H., Plonka, L., Gregory, P. and Taylor, K.J. (2014) ‘Integrating UX design into a DSDM project: Challenges, work practices and lessons learned.’

Academic Publications

• Gregory, P.; Strode, D.; Barroca, L.; Sharp, H.; Taylor, K. (2020) Stakeholder Perceptions of IT Business Value in a Public Sector IT Digitalisation Project. In press. European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS 2020), Online June 2020
• Gregory, P.; Strode, D.; Barroca, L.; Sharp, H.; Taylor, K. (2020) Onboarding: How Newcomers Integrate into an Agile Project Team. To be published. Proceedings of the 21^st International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2020, Online June 2020
• Sharp, H. and Taylor, K. (2020) ‘Strategy-focused Agile Transformation: a case study’. In: Paasivaara M., Kruchten P. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops. XP 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 396. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58858-8_17
• Gregory, P. and Taylor, K. “Defining Agile Culture: A Collaborative and Practitioner-Led Approach,” 2019 IEEE/ACM 12th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, pp. 37-38, doi: 10.1109/CHASE.2019.00016.
• Barroca, L., Sharp, H., Dingsoyr, T., Gregory, P., Taylor, K., AlQaisi, R. (2019) Enterprise Agility: A Balancing Act – A Local Government Case Study. In: Kruchten P., Fraser S., Coallier F. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 355. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19034-7_13
• Barroca, L., Gregory, P., Kuusinen, K., Sharp, H., AlQaisi, R. (2018) Sustaining Agile Beyond Adoption, in Proceedings of the Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), 29-31 August 2018, Prague. Paper available here
• Karvonen, T., Sharp, H. and Barroca, L. (2018) ‘Enterprise Agility: Why Is Transformation so Hard?’.19th International Conference on Agile Software Development XP2018, 21-25 May 2018, Porto, Portugal. In Springer, Cham, pp. 131–145. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-91602-6_9. Abstract available here.
• Kuusinen, K., Gregory, P., Sharp, H., Barroca, L., Taylor, K., Wood, L. (2017) ‘Knowledge Sharing in a Large Agile Organisation: A Survey Study’. Accepted to XP2017. Abstract available here
• Deshpande, A., Sharp, H., Barroca, L., Gregory, P. (2016). ‘Remote Working and Collaboration in Agile Teams’. International Conference on Information Systems, 11-14 December 2016, Dublin, Ireland. Paper available here
• Kuusinen, K., Gregory, P., Sharp, H., Barroca, L. (2016) ‘Strategies for doing Agile in a non-Agile Environment’. Proc. Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ESEM’16. Paper 5. ACM. DOI: 10.1145/2961111.2962623 Free full text version available here
• Gregory, P., Barroca, L., Sharp, H., Deshpande, A., Taylor, K. (2016) ‘The Challenges that Challenge: Engaging with Agile Practitioners’ Concerns’. Information and Software Technology 77 pp.92-104. DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2016.04.006.
• Gregory, P., Barroca, L., Taylor, K., Salah, D., Sharp, H. (2015) ‘Agile Challenges in Practice: A Thematic Analysis’. Proceedings of XP 2015, LNBIP 212, pp.64-80, Helsinki, Finland, May 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18612-2_6
• Barroca , L., Sharp, H., Salah, D., Gregory, P., Taylor, K. (2015) ‘Bridging the gap between research and agile practice: an evolutionary model’. International Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management, April 2015. DOI: 10.1007/s13198-015-0355-5
• Gregory, P., Plonka, L., Sharp, H. and Taylor, K.J. (2014) ‘Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: The Agile Research Network’ in Proceedings of ECRM (13th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies), London, June 2014.
• Plonka, L., Sharp, H., Gregory, P. and Taylor, K.J. (2014) ‘UX design in agile: a DSDM case study’ in Proceedings of XP 2014.
• Sharp, H., Plonka, L., Taylor, K.J., and Gregory, P. (2014) ‘Overcoming challenges in Collaboration between research and practice: the Agile Research Network’ in Proceedings of Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practices, a workshop co-located at ICSE 2014, 1st June, Hyderabad
• Plonka, L., Sharp, H., Gregory, P. and Taylor, K.J. (2014) ‘UX design in Agile: A DSDM Case Study’ in Proceedings of XP 2014, Rome, Italy, May 2014