Putting agile teamwork to the test - an preliminary instrument for empirically assessing and improving agile software development

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 31 LNBIP, Issue , 2009, Pages 114-123

  Moe, Nils Brede ^a   Dingsøyr, Torgeir ^a   Røyrvik, Emil A ^b  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b SINTEF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agile software development; case study; empirical software engineering; scrum; self managed; self organized; team effectiveness; team radar

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; INSTRUMENTS; RADAR; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CASE STUDY; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SCRUM; SELF-MANAGED; SELF-ORGANIZED; TEAM EFFECTIVENESS; TEAM RADAR;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 66749132463     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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