Self-organizing roles on agile software development teams

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 422-444

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agile software development; grounded theory; Self organizing; software engineering; team roles

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CUSTOMER COLLABORATION; GROUNDED THEORY; ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES; SELF-ORGANIZING; SENIOR MANAGEMENT SUPPORT; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; TEAM ROLES;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; GROUP THEORY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84879302069     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2012.30     Document Type: Article

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