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Multi-level agile project management challenges: A self-organizing team perspective
- Source :
- Journal of Systems and Software. 117:245-257
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Self-organizing teams are closely involved in project management activities.High team involvement in project management leads to new challenges.We present the multiple levels of agile project management challenges.Relationships between challenges at different levels were also identified.Teams and managers need to address these challenges in order to be effective. Agile software development advocates self-organizing teams that display high levels of autonomy. Self-organizing agile teams are meant to share project management activities such as estimation, planning, and requirements elicitation with managers and customers. While prior literature has explored some individual management-related issues, little is known about how the high involvement of self-organizing agile teams influences everyday project management activities. Through a Grounded Theory study involving 21 agile practitioners across six software companies implementing scrum and XP, we identified a set of eight project management challenges as experienced by and as a result of self-organizing agile teams at multiple levels. These include delayed/changing requirements and eliciting senior management sponsorship at the project level; achieving cross-functionality and effective estimations at the team level; asserting autonomy and self-assignment at the individual level, and lack of acceptance criteria and dependencies at the task level. A mapping between the emergent challenges and standard project management activities is also presented. The article also shares practical implications and guidelines for agile teams, their managers, and customers for overcoming some of these challenges.
- Subjects :
- Engineering
Agile usability engineering
Process management
Knowledge management
business.industry
05 social sciences
020207 software engineering
02 engineering and technology
Functional manager
Project planning
Hardware and Architecture
0502 economics and business
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Project management
business
Project management 2.0
050203 business & management
Software
Software project management
Information Systems
Project management triangle
Agile software development
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Details
- ISSN :
- 01641212
- Volume :
- 117
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Systems and Software
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c008c5762a6aab5fb45df65172ecfec6