Most large software companies are involved in offshore development of some sort, and now the trend is that small and medium sized companies are also going global. While empirical research suggests that offshoring are not always successful, evidence explaining the reasons for terminated...
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Traditional software teams consist of independently focused self-managing professionals with high individual but low team autonomy. A challenge with introducing agile software development is that it requires a high level of both individual and team autonomy. This paper studies the barriers with...
Large-scale agile software development is increasingly being orga- nized with product management. Although product management is familiar to software engineering, we need research-based knowledge about organizing prod- uct management in an agile development context. This study focuses on product...
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...
Learning from experience is the key to successes for all that develop software. Both the successes and the failures in softwa e projects can help us to improve. Here we discuss how two versions of Post Mortem Analysis (PMA) as methods for harvesting experience from completed software projects, which...
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...
Many companies have turned towards globally distributed software development in their quest for access to more development capacity. This paper investigates how a company onboarded distributed teams in a global project, and report experience on how to study such distributed projects. Onboarding is...
Healthcare information systems are characterized by having many stakeholders, roles, complex and diverse information systems, high degree of formalized working practices and an intense focus on quality concerns like interoperability, security and reliability. There is an emerging need for a...
Team organizing is a major way of assisting collaboration in knowledge intensive work such as software development, and is especially favored in agile approaches. Motivated by the challenge of transforming an organization from traditional command-and-control management to collaborative selfmanaged...
Traditional software teams consist of independently focused self-managing professionals with highindividual but low team autonomy. A challenge with introducing agile software development is that itrequires a high level of both individual and team autonomy. This paper studies the barriers...
The majority of software developers work in teams and are thus influenced by team norms. Norms are shared expectations of how to behave and regulate the interaction between team members. Our aim of this study is to gain more knowledge about team norms in software teams and to increase the...
In FinTech organizations, there are trends toward employing agile methods, moving away from legacy monolithic technical architecture to microservices architecture, and focusing on collaboration and autonomy to boost innovation. When software teams have end-to-end responsibility and decision-making...