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Today’s software development business is very much dynamic, and industries are changing their software development and requirements ways to meet the new changes in the environment. The environment also demands the rapid development and delivery of the product. In fast-changing environment and demands, agile methodology is the most useful development method. It gains fame due to its unique features that facilitate the software development more efficiently, client developer relation, rapid delivery of the product, and allow changes at any stage of the project, and client satisfaction. Currently, the world is suffering under a pandemic situation due to the COVID-19 disease. The disease spread with the close interaction with the human, for this reason many thousands of developers started working from home. The software industries working with the agile methodology are facing many issues to meet the development objectives. For this line of research, we have conducted this study on many different software industries using the agile methodology. In this study, we interviewed many developers using the questionnaire to determine the significant reasons for the failure of agile methodology during the current pandemic situation. We applied regression analysis, Cronbach alpha, and descriptive analysis statistical methods to the data set.
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List of Companies.
Companies | No. employees | Type of services | Location | Sub-locations |
Company 1 | 300–400 | IT business solutions | Pakistan | Dubai |
Company 2 | 250–300 | Software applications development | Pakistan | UAE |
Company 3 | 200–250 | Govt. software applications | Pakistan | Australia |
Company 4 | 200–220 | IT solutions consultancy | Pakistan | UK |
Company 5 | 150–200 | Software applications development | Pakistan | Romania |
Company 6 | 200–300 | Learning applications development | Pakistan | Austria |
Company 7 | 200–350 | Health applications development | Pakistan | UK |
Company 8 | 150–230 | IT solutions consultancy | Pakistan | UAE |
Company 9 | 200–250 | Govt. software applications | Pakistan | USA |
Company 10 | 150–300 | Business solutions | Pakistan | UAE |
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Butt, S.A., Misra, S., Anjum, M.W., Hassan, S.A. (2021). Agile Project Development Issues During COVID-19. In: Przybyłek, A., Miler, J., Poth, A., Riel, A. (eds) Lean and Agile Software Development. LASD 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 408. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67084-9_4
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