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Table 8 Spearman’s correlation between reasons for Agile adoption, company size, and experience

From: The evolution of agile software development in Brazil

 

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Company size [1]

             

Company experience [2]

0.30***

            

Managing priorities [3]

0.09

0.14**

           

Productivity [4]

\(-\)0.04

\(-\)0.04

0.11*

          

Quality [5]

\(-\)0.06

0.05

0.16***

0.19***

         

Business and IT alignment [6]

0.10*

0.07

0.31***

0.07

0.26***

        

Visibility [7]

0.07

0.11*

0.21***

0.16***

0.19***

0.32***

       

Time to market [8]

0.10*

0.11*

0.19***

0.16***

0.04

0.14**

0.23***

      

Simplify development [9]

\(-\)0.04

0.13**

0.09*

0.22***

0.23***

0.04

0.08

0.21***

     

Engineering discipline [10]

\(-\)0.08

0.07

0.15***

0.15***

0.29***

0.13**

0.24***

0.11*

0.33***

    

Cost [11]

\(-\)0.10*

0.05

0.12*

0.23***

0.20***

0.18***

0.18***

0.18***

0.25***

0.25***

   

Maintainability [12]

\(-\)0.17***

0.02

0.19***

0.19***

0.52***

0.25***

0.17***

0.09*

0.27***

0.36***

0.38***

  

Team morale [13]

\(-\)0.04

0.04

0.16***

0.14**

0.24***

0.20***

0.30***

0.11*

0.22***

0.30***

0.17***

0.34***

 

Risk management [14]

\(-\)0.02

0.14**

0.29***

0.11*

0.23***

0.30***

0.30***

0.07

0.17***

0.22***

0.29***

0.28***

0.43***

  1. \(N=471\)
  2. Significance levels: \(^{***}p<0.001\), \(^{**}p<0.01\), \(^* p<0.05\)