Content analysis on agile values: A perception from software practitioners

Abstract

Agile approach has become a popular process, in the software industry. Values such as quickness, flexibility and responsiveness are the main reason behind this fame. These values are fundamental as they define the culture of the software company where a set of practices can be followed based on them. According to Agile practitioners, knowing the most important values is the key to follow the best set of practices. Thus, the objective of this paper is to obtain a description of key agile values through the content analysis of the comments of agile manifesto signatories. The results have shown that the values associated with people are the most important, while the values associated with process come in the second level of importance.