From Group Psychology to Software Engineering Research to Automotive R&D: Measuring Team Development at Volvo Cars
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024

From 2019 to 2022, Volvo Cars successfully translated our research discoveries regarding group dynamics within agile teams into widespread industrial practice. We wish to illuminate the insights gained through the process of garnering support, providing training, executing implementation, and sustaining a tool embraced by approximately 700 teams and 9,000 employees. This tool was designed to empower agile teams and propel their internal development. Our experiences underscore the necessity of comprehensive team training, the cultivation of a cadre of trainers across the organization, and the creation of a novel software solution. In essence, we deduce that an automated concise survey tool, coupled with a repository of actionable strategies, holds remarkable potential in fostering the maturation of agile teams, but we also share many of the challenges we encountered during the implementation.

Human engineering

Engineering research

Lean production

Agile teams

Industrial research

Författare

Lucas Gren

Software Engineering 1

Göteborgs universitet

Christian Jacobsson

Göteborgs universitet

Proceedings of the Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, EUROMICRO-SEAA

2640592X (ISSN) 23769521 (eISSN)

2024 431-434

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Programvaruteknik

Arbetslivsstudier

DOI

10.1109/SEAA64295.2024.00072

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