A qualitative study of the determinants of self-managing team effectiveness in a scrum team

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 16-23

  Monteiro, Cleviton V F ^a   Da Silva, Fabio Q B ^a   Dos Santos, Isabella R M ^a   Farias, Felipe ^a   Cardozo, Elisa S F ^a   Do A Leitão, André R G ^a   Neto, Dacio N M ^a   Pernambuco Filho, Miguel J A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

agile methods; qualitative research; self management; software teams

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGILE METHODS; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION; SOFTWARE TEAMS; TEAM EFFECTIVENESS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79959477317     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1984642.1984646     Document Type: Conference Paper

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