Agile transformation implies that organizations apply agile methods also outside of software development units. One particular way of doing such transformations is to create cross-functional software development units. This represents new challenges for control for organizations as the unformal...
To keep up with the pace of innovation, established companies are increasingly relying on internal software startups. However, succeeding with such startups is a challenging task because internal startups need to find a balance between the interests of the company and the interest of the innovator...
One way of implementing Software Process Improvement (SPI) is to empower employees to carry out decisions made by management. An alternative way is to invite developers and project leaders to participate in all phases of planning and implementing SPI projects. Such participation has always been a...
Software companies have to identify and manage numerous linked processes to function effectively. We describe how a medium-sized software company improved their software development methodology through implementing an electronic process guide. We discuss how involvement in creating an electronic...
One way of implementing Software Process Improvement (SPI) is to empower employees to carry out decisions made by management. An alternative way is to invite developers and project leaders to participate in all phases of planning and implementing SPI projects. Such participation has always been a...
For process models to be useful, increasingly more software companies not only tailor their process models to the specific needs of the company, but also make them available on the company’s intranet. In this paper, we try to understand what characterizes the use of an electronic process guide among...
Agile software development methodologies underline the importance of having self-managing teams. These are teams with authority to plan, schedule and otherwise manage their own work. The literature within the software domain is scarce on self-management in relation to agile software teams. There is...
Agile development is a force that reshapes requirements engineering (RE). Agile RE processes are not constrained to pre-development phase like in traditional RE; they're evenly spread throughout development. High-level RE occurs at the project beginning, and then agile RE continues at each...
Large software development projects and programs are increasingly adopting agile development practices. Frameworks for managing large agile development projects is gaining popularity, such as the Scaled Agile Framework and Large Scale Scrum. New challenges arise as agile methods are used in a large...
Large-scale software development is increasingly making use of agile practices. In large-scale projects, a team needs to align with other teams and the rest of the organization. This has been shown to threaten team autonomy, which, in turn, reduces responsiveness and flexibility. Hence, agile teams...
To succeed in complex environments and handle the innovation, development and support, organizations have to find ways to support and regulate the autonomy of teams according to the environmental demands and limitations. Furthermore, there is no one-size-fits-all autonomy approach. The process of...
Large global companies need to speed up their innovation activities to increase competitive advantage. However, such companies' organizational structures impede their ability to capture trends they are well aware of due to bureaucracy, slow decision-making, distributed departments, and distributed...
Many organizations must undergo digitalization and digital transformation (DT) simultaneously; in itself, either is daunting. For 15 months, we followed the ongoing digitalization and DT activities at a maritime company with over 3700 employees through a qualitative analysis of 20 interviews, a...
Offshore outsourcing is a common way of working, but sourcing collaborations do not always last, and sometimes vendors are switched. Vendor switching results in a complex form of relationship, in which the competing outgoing and incoming vendors are expected to cooperate. The success of such...
Today, many large-scale software projects have members working from home, which has changed the way teams coordinate work. To better understand coordination in this setting, we conducted a case study through which we examined two teams in a large-scale agile project by observing meetings and...
Escalating commitment is a common and costly phenomenon in software projects in which decision-makers continue to invest resources to a failing course of action. We conducted a longitudinal case study exploring the effect of daily meetings on escalating commitment. This was done in an agile project...
Delivering results iteratively and frequently in large-scale agile requires efficient management of dependencies. We conducted semistructured interviews and virtual observations in a large-scale project during the Covid-19 pandemic to better understand large-scale dependency management. All employees...
It is increasingly common to introduce agile coaches to help gain speed and advantage in agile companies. Following the success of Spotify, the role of the agile coach has branched out in terms of tasks and responsibilities, but little research has been conducted to examine how this role is...
Today, product development organizations are adopting agile methods in units outside the software development unit, such as in sales, market, legal, operations working with the customer. This broader adoption of agile methods has been labeled large-scale agile transformation and is considered a...
Many software companies disseminate process knowledge through electronic process guides. A common problem with process guides is that they are not used in practice. Through a case study we investigate how involvement in creating an electronic process guide through process workshops influences the...