Paper Info
Title
Organizing self-organizing teams
Abstract
Agile teams are described as "self-organizing". How these teams actually organize themselves in practice, however, is not well understood. Through Grounded Theory research involving 24 Agile practitioners across 14 software organizations in New Zealand and India, we identified six informal roles that team members adopt in order to help their teams self-organize. These roles --- Mentor, Co-ordinator, Translator, Champion, Promoter, and Terminator --- help teams learn Agile practices, liaise with customers, maintain management support, and remove ineffective team members. Understanding these roles will help software teams become self-organizing, and should guide Agile coaches in working with Agile teams.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1806799.1806843
Software Engineering, 2010 ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
software prototyping,agile teams,self-organizing teams,software organizations,software teams,agile software development,self-organizing teams,software engineering
Grounded theory,Personal software process,Systems engineering,Computer science,Lean software development,Extreme programming practices,Knowledge management,Agile usability engineering,Agile software development,Empirical process (process control model),Team software process
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1
0270-5257
978-1-60558-719-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
35
1.37
31
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rashina Hoda1352.05
James Noble21683163.52
Stuart Marshall330123.77