Zhang et al. (2025)
Agile teams want AI to be a teammate, but the tools, skills, and rules aren't ready yet
A workshop of 30+ researchers and practitioners at XP2025 catalogued six categories of frustration with GenAI in agile software development and co-created a five-theme research roadmap to move from isolated experiments to human-centered integration.
- 78.6%
- of voters flagged lack of prompting skills as their top frustration, the highest single sub-challenge across all categories
- 73.3%
- voted 'too many tools, unclear which to use' as the most pressing tooling challenge