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Putting Agile Teamwork to the Test – An Preliminary Instrument for Empirically Assessing and Improving Agile Software Development

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2009)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 31))

Abstract

Team organizing is a major way of assisting collaboration in knowledge intensive work such as software development, and is especially favored in agile approaches. Motivated by the challenge of transforming an organization from traditional command-and-control management to collaborative self-managed teams, we present an instrument that we argue addresses key concerns and characteristics of teamwork, and presents them along five dimensions that must be addressed when improving teamwork in agile software development. The dimensions are shared leadership, team orientation, redundancy, learning and autonomy. The instrument gives a radar plot of the status of the teamwork. We present empirical examples from using this instrument with three teams and briefly outline potential uses of the instrument.

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  1. SINTEF ICT, Norway

    Nils Brede Moe & Torgeir Dingsøyr

  2. SINTEF Technology and Society, NO-7465, Trondheim, Norway

    Emil A. Røyrvik

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    Pekka Abrahamsson

  2. DIEE Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

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  3. Agile Software Engineering/e-Business Engineering (ase/ebe) group, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

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Moe, N.B., Dingsøyr, T., Røyrvik, E.A. (2009). Putting Agile Teamwork to the Test – An Preliminary Instrument for Empirically Assessing and Improving Agile Software Development. In: Abrahamsson, P., Marchesi, M., Maurer, F. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_14

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