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Do Large-Scale Agile Frameworks Encode Socio-Technical Resilience?

Authors Chukwudi Uwasomba , Helen Sharp , Tamara Lopez , Michel Wermelinger , Advait Deshpande , Peggy Gregory

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  • Software and its engineering → Software development methods
  • Software and its engineering → Agile software development
  • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI)
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  • Large-scale agile frameworks
  • Socio-technical resilience
  • Resilience engineering

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Abstract

Large-Scale Agile Frameworks (LSAFs) are widely used to coordinate agile transformation beyond individual teams. They are often associated with organisational adaptability, yet whether their formal guidance encodes the capabilities associated with socio-technical resilience (STR) is unclear. Drawing on Hollnagel’s resilience potentials, this vision paper presents observations from an initial investigation of how resilience-relevant capabilities are represented in formal LSAF guidance. These observations indicate a potential resilience blind spot in LSAFs. The paper identifies opportunities for further empirical work on LSAFs and resilience, and on how organisations supplement LSAFs with resilience-oriented practices.

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Chukwudi Uwasomba, Helen Sharp, Tamara Lopez, Michel Wermelinger, Advait Deshpande, and Peggy Gregory. Do Large-Scale Agile Frameworks Encode Socio-Technical Resilience?. In 20th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 394, pp. 74:1-74:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESEM.2026.74

Author Details

Chukwudi Uwasomba
  • Edge Hill University, St Helens Rd, Ormskirk, United Kingdom
Helen Sharp
  • The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Tamara Lopez
  • The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Michel Wermelinger
  • The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Advait Deshpande
  • The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Peggy Gregory
  • University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Acknowledgements

We thank Charles Weir and Andrew Leigh for being in the assessment team.

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