TY - GEN
T1 - The influence of agile practices on performance in software engineering teams
T2 - 2018 ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research, SIGMIS-CPR 2018
AU - Przybilla, Leonard
AU - Wiesche, Manuel
AU - Krcmar, Helmut
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/6/18
Y1 - 2018/6/18
N2 - This research explores the influence of the agile practices daily stand-ups and retrospectives on negative effects of subgroups, i.e. of having several smaller groups within a team, on group conflict, satisfaction, and performance. Based on extant literature in agile software development (ASD) and group research, a model of effects of ASD practices and the constructs elaboration, i.e. direct sharing, of information and team reflexivity, i.e. how much teams reflect on processes and outcomes, is developed and assessed using a survey of agile teams. Previous findings on negative effects of subgroups on conflict and satisfaction are corroborated in an agile setting. Retrospectives enhance team reflexivity and elaboration of information. As expected, elaboration of information significantly attenuates effects on conflict. Surprisingly, reflexivity is seen to further exacerbate the negative effects of perceived subgroups on conflict and satisfaction.
AB - This research explores the influence of the agile practices daily stand-ups and retrospectives on negative effects of subgroups, i.e. of having several smaller groups within a team, on group conflict, satisfaction, and performance. Based on extant literature in agile software development (ASD) and group research, a model of effects of ASD practices and the constructs elaboration, i.e. direct sharing, of information and team reflexivity, i.e. how much teams reflect on processes and outcomes, is developed and assessed using a survey of agile teams. Previous findings on negative effects of subgroups on conflict and satisfaction are corroborated in an agile setting. Retrospectives enhance team reflexivity and elaboration of information. As expected, elaboration of information significantly attenuates effects on conflict. Surprisingly, reflexivity is seen to further exacerbate the negative effects of perceived subgroups on conflict and satisfaction.
KW - Agile software development
KW - Daily stand-up
KW - Retrospective
KW - Subgroups
KW - Team dynamics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050098093&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3209626.3209703
DO - 10.1145/3209626.3209703
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85050098093
T3 - SIGMIS-CPR 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research
SP - 33
EP - 40
BT - SIGMIS-CPR 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGMIS Conference on Computers and People Research
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 18 June 2018 through 20 June 2018
ER -