🤖 AI Summary
Although agile software development has been widely adopted, there remains a lack of a systematic, integrated framework identifying the critical success factors that consistently contribute to project success. Addressing this gap, this study conducts a systematic literature review of 53 empirical studies, employing thematic synthesis and content analysis to identify 21 critical success factors. These factors are systematically categorized into five dimensions—organizational, human, technical, process, and project—yielding a novel multidimensional theoretical framework. This framework represents the first comprehensive integration and classification of agile success factors, emphasizing the pivotal roles of team effectiveness and project management. It provides a solid theoretical foundation for future quantitative validation and practical application in agile contexts.
📝 Abstract
Despite the popularity of Agile software development, achieving consistent project success remains challenging. This systematic literature review identifies critical success factors (CSFs) in Agile projects by analyzing 53 primary studies. Employing thematic synthesis with content analysis, our analysis yielded 21 CSFs categorized into five themes: organizational, people, technical, process, and project. Team effectiveness and project management emerged as the most frequently cited CSFs, highlighting the importance of people and process factors. These interpreted themes and factors contributed to the development of a theoretical framework to identify how these factors contribute to project success. This study offers valuable insights for researchers and practitioners, guiding future research to validate these findings and test the proposed framework using quantitative methods.