The impact of an agile methodology on the well being of development teams

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 143-167

  Syed Abdullah, Sharifah ^a,b   Holcombe, Mike ^a   Gheorge, Marian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute and Quality Management   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Agile methodology; Anxiety; Contentment; Depression; Enthusiasm; Extreme programming; SE teams; Work related well being

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODOLOGY; CONTENTMENT; WORK RELATED WELL BEING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 32944474958     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-006-5968-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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