Developing a grounded theory to explain the practices of self-organizing Agile teams

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 609-639

  Hoda, Rashina ^a   Noble, James ^a   Marshall, Stuart ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agile software development; Empirical research; Rounded theory; Self organizing; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE TEAMS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GROUNDED THEORY; NEW ZEALAND; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; ROUNDED THEORY; SELF ORGANIZING; SELF-ORGANIZE; SOFTWARE ORGANIZATION;

RESEARCH; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84868356067     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-011-9161-0     Document Type: Article

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