A teamwork model for understanding an agile team: A case study of a Scrum project

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 480-491

  Moe, Nils Brede ^a   Dingsøyr, Torgeir ^a   Dybå, Tore ^a  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agile software development; Case study; Empirical software engineering; Scrum; Software engineering; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE TEAMS; CASE STUDY; DEVELOPMENT METHOD; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; SELF-MANAGING; SELF-MANAGING TEAM; SENSEMAKING; SHARED MENTAL MODEL; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; TEAM EFFECTIVENESS; TEAM LEADERSHIP; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77949485657     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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