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Motivation and cohesion in agile teams

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Elizabeth Whitworth,

Robert BiddleAuthors Info & Claims

XP'07: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Agile processes in software engineering and extreme programming

Pages 62 - 69

Published: 18 June 2007 Publication History

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This research explored aspects of agile teamwork initiatives associated with positive socio-psychological phenomena, with a focus on phenomena outside the scope of traditional management, organizational, and software engineering research. Agile teams were viewed as complex adaptive socio-technical systems. Qualitative grounded theory was used to explore the socio-psychological characteristics of agile teams under the umbrella research question: What is the experience of being in an agile software development team? Results included a deeper understanding of the link between agile practices and positive team outcomes such as motivation and cohesion.

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XP'07: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Agile processes in software engineering and extreme programming

June 2007

276 pages

ISBN:9783540731009

Editors:
Giulio Concas
Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Elettronica, Cagliari, Italy
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Ernesto Damiani
Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Crema, Italy
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Marco Scotto
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Bolzano, BZ, Italy
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Giancarlo Succi
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Bolzano, BZ, Italy

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Sedano TRalph PPéraire CBeecham SKitchenham BMacDonell S(2016)Practice and perception of team code ownershipProceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering10.1145/2915970.2916002(1-6)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2915970.2916002
Badreddin O(2013)Thematic review and analysis of grounded theory application in software engineeringAdvances in Software Engineering10.1155/2013/4680212013(4-4)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1155/2013/468021
Treccani PDe Souza C(2011)Collaborative refactoringProceedings of the 17th international conference on Collaboration and technology10.5555/2050569.2050577(73-80)Online publication date: 2-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2050569.2050577

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