Understanding Self-Organizing Teams in Agile Software Development
Moe, N.B.
Dingsoyr, T.
Dyba, T.
SINTEF ICT, Trondheim;
This paper appears in: Software Engineering, 2008. ASWEC 2008. 19th Australian Conference on
Publication Date: 26-28 March 2008
On page(s): 76-85
Location: Perth, WA,
ISSN: 1530-0803
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3100-7
INSPEC Accession Number: 9913073
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ASWEC.2008.4483195
Current Version Published: 2008-04-03
Abstract
Traditional software teams consist of independently focused self-managing professionals with high individual but low team autonomy. A challenge with introducing agile software development is that it requires a high level of both individual and team autonomy. This paper studies the barriers with introducing self-organizing teams in agile software development and presents data from a seven month ethnographic study of professional developers in a Scrum team. We found the most important barrier to be the highly specialized skills of the developers and the corresponding division of work. In addition we found a lack of system for team support, and reduced external autonomy to be important barriers for introducing self- organizing teams. These findings have implications for software development managers and practitioners.
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