Group Maturity and Agility, Are They Connected? - A Survey Study
Paper in proceeding, 2015

The focus on psychology has increased within software engineering due to the project management innovation "agile development processes". The agile methods do not explicitly consider group development aspects, they simply assume what is described in group psychology as mature groups. This study was conducted with 45 employees and their twelve managers (N=57) from two SAP customers in the US that were working with agile methods, and the data were collected via an online survey. The selected Agility measurement was correlated to a Group Development measurement and showed significant convergent validity, i.e., A more mature team is also a more agile team. This means that the agile methods probably would benefit from taking group development into account when its practices are being introduced.

Group Development

Software Engineering

Psychology

Agile Software Development

Author

Lucas Gren

University of Gothenburg

Richard Torkar

University of Gothenburg

Robert Feldt

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2015), August 26-28

Vol. 41 1-8
978-1-4673-7585-6 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Applied Psychology

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1109/SEAA.2015.31

ISBN

978-1-4673-7585-6

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Created

10/7/2017