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Supporting Self-organizing Agile Teams

What’s Senior Management Got to Do with It?

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2011)

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Self-organizing Agile teams need a supportive environment to emerge and flourish. Through a Grounded Theory study of 58 Agile practitioners across 23 different software organizations in New Zealand and India, we found that senior management support is a critical environmental factor influencing self-organizing Agile teams. We describe the influence of senior management, and show how their support can create and sustain a supportive environment for self-organizing Agile teams.

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    Rashina Hoda, James Noble & Stuart Marshall

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    Emily Bache

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Hoda, R., Noble, J., Marshall, S. (2011). Supporting Self-organizing Agile Teams. In: Sillitti, A., Hazzan, O., Bache, E., Albaladejo, X. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 77. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20677-1_6

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