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- Gustavsson, Tomas, 1973-, et al.
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Changes to team autonomy in large-scale software development : a multiple case study of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) implementations
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management. - : Scika. - 2182-7796 .- 2182-7788. ; 10:1, s. 29-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Large-scale transformations of agile ways of working have received more attention in the industry in recent years. Some organizations have developed their own solutions for scaling, whereas many have chosen trademarked frameworks. In large-scale agile software development, many developers and development teams carry out work simultaneously. When autonomous teams need to coordinate toward a common goal, they must sacrifice some level of autonomy. Development, testing, and integrations need to be coordinated with other teams and aligned with an organization's programs or portfolio. Through the conducting of 28 interviews and 17 on-site visits, this multiple case study explored how team autonomy changed in three agile software development organizations that implemented the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The positive changes to team autonomy that they experienced as a result included getting a better overview, making better long-term decisions, giving and receiving help, and signaling limitations. We found two negative impacts on team autonomy: limited feature choice and enforced refinement. The study extends previous research on large-scale agile software development and improves our understanding of impacts on team autonomy.
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- Moe, Nils Brede, et al.
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Attractive Workplaces : What Are Engineers Looking for?
- 2023
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Ingår i: IEEE Software. - : IEEE Computer Society. - 0740-7459 .- 1937-4194. ; 40:5, s. 85-93
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Competing for talents requires a conscious effort to offer an attractive workplace, which, until recently, involved increasing employee empowerment and engagement and offering opportunities for bottom-up innovation. Today, this is not sufficient, pushing tech companies to harmonize existing strategies with remote work.
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- Šmite, Darja, et al.
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From Collaboration to Solitude and Back : Remote Pair Programming During COVID-19
- 2021
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Ingår i: AGILE PROCESSES IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND EXTREME PROGRAMMING (XP 2021). - Cham : Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. - 9783030780975 ; , s. 3-18
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Along with the increasing popularity of agile software development, software work has become much more social than ever. Contemporary software teams rely on a variety of collaborative practices, such as pair programming, the topic of our study. Many agilists advocated the importance of collocation, face-to-face interaction, and physical artefacts incorporated in the shared workspace, which the COVID-19 pandemic made unavailable; most software companies around the world were forced to send their engineers to work from home. As software projects and teams overnight turned into distributed collaborations, we question what happened to the pair programming practice in the work-from-home mode. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of remote pair programming in two companies. We conducted 38 interviews with 30 engineers from Norway, Sweden, and the USA, and used the results of a survey in one of the case companies. Our study is unique as we collected the data longitudinally in April/May 2020, Sep/Oct 2020, and Jan/Feb 2021. We found that pair programming has decreased and some interviewees report not pairing at all for almost a full year. The experiences of those who paired vary from actively co-editing the code by using special tools to more passively co-reading and discussing the code and solutions by sharing the screen. Finally, we found that the interest in and the use of PP over time, since the first months of the forced work from home to early 2021, has admittedly increased, also as a social practice. © 2021, The Author(s).
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- Šmite, Darja, et al.
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Offshore Outsourcing Costs : Known or Still Hidden?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings - 2019 ACM/IEEE 14th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2019. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. - 9781538691960 ; , s. 40-47
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Offshore outsourcing of software development has been both famous for the promises of great cost reductions, and infamous for the hidden costs associated with the challenges of organizing software work over distance. Experience shows that many of these costs do not receive the deserved attention and are often excluded when making offshoring decisions. As a result, there is often a significant deviation between the expected and the realized costs of offshoring. In this paper, we investigate the awareness of the extra costs when making an offshoring decision, and the significance of the actual cost deviations. We conducted a single case study of a company that carried out an offshore outsourcing pilot project. We collected qualitative data from interviews, observations and a retrospective, and quantitative data on the costs and effort associated with the project. We conclude that the company was aware of the hidden cost factors, but largely underestimated their significance. The costs that surfaced in the studied project accounted for a total deviation of 181% and several individual cost categories with more than 400% overrun. The two main cost drivers in our study were the distance and poor process fit, which escalated the investments needed to make the collaboration work. Our results suggest that pilots are useful to understand the key problem areas in an offshoring collaboration, but too limited to shed light on all potential problems (e.g. turnover) due to the short timeframe. We also conclude that results of pilot projects shall not be the only data source when calculating the true costs of offshoring, since the start-up phase of an offshoring relationship carries large investments. Finally, we provide recommendations for companies in a similar situation on how to run and learn from offshore outsourcing pilot projects. © 2019 IEEE.
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- Stray, Viktoria, et al.
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Theories in Agile Software Development : Past, Present, and Future Introduction to the XP 2020 Special Section
- 2022
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Ingår i: Information and Software Technology. - : Elsevier. - 0950-5849 .- 1873-6025. ; 152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last two decades, agile software development has gained popularity among software engineering researchers and practitioners. However, the development and use of theories in agile research remain relatively low. While analyzing publications on agile software development in the Scopus database from the last decade, we found that only 7% of the papers used or developed a theory. This trend seems stable. However, it is promising that most theory-centric studies use or propose theories to address cognitive and behavioral aspects of people working in agile development. We argue that these aspects build fundamental pillars in agile software development. In this special section, we introduce extended versions of four papers selected from the XP2020 Conference. These papers make valuable contributions to aspects of learning and behavior in agile software development. We encourage researchers to be more theory-centric in their future empirical studies of agile methods and practices by familiarizing themselves with existing theories and applying and developing theories. This way, they can contribute to a reliable, evidence-based body of knowledge in our community. © 2022
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- Ulfsnes, Rasmus, et al.
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Innovation in Large-Scale Agile - Benefits and Challenges of Hackathons When Hacking from Home
- 2021
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Ingår i: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. - Cham : Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. - 9783030885823 ; , s. 23-32
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hackathons are events in which diverse teams work together to explore and develop solutions, software, or even ideas. Hackathons have been recognized not only as public events for hacking but also as a corporate mechanism for innovation. Hackathons are a way for established large-scale agile organizations to achieve increased employee wellbeing as well as being a curator for innovation and developing new products. The sudden transition to the work-from-home mode caused by the COVID-19 pandemic first put many corporate events requiring collocation, such as hackathons, temporarily on hold and then motivated companies to find ways to hold these events virtually. In this paper, we report our findings from investigating hackathons in the context of a large agile company by first exploring the general benefits and challenges of hackathons and then trying to understand how they were affected by the virtual setup. We conducted nine interviews, surveyed 23 employees, and analyzed a hackathon demo. We found that hackathons provide both individual and organizational benefits of innovation, personal interests, and acquiring new skills and competencies. However, several challenges such as added stress due to stopping the regular work, employees fearing not having enough contribution to deliver, and potential mismatch between individual and organizational goals were also found. With respect to the virtual setup, we found that virtual hackathons are not diminishing the innovation benefits. However, some negative effects surfaced on the social and networking side. © 2021, The Author(s).
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- Wang, Xiaofeng, et al.
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Special section on IST for ICSOB2021
- 2023
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Ingår i: Information and Software Technology. - : Elsevier. - 0950-5849 .- 1873-6025. ; 160
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