Grounded theory in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines

KJ Stol, P Ralph, B Fitzgerald - … of the 38th International conference on …, 2016‏ - dl.acm.org
Grounded Theory (GT) has proved an extremely useful research approach in several fields
including medical sociology, nursing, education and management theory. However, GT is a …

Agile transition and adoption human-related challenges and issues: A Grounded Theory approach

TJ Gandomani, MZ Nafchi - Computers in Human Behavior, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Agile methods in software development have been introduced to cope with the inherent
problems of the traditional methods. The increasing prevalence of using these methods …

Multi-level agile project management challenges: A self-organizing team perspective

R Hoda, LK Murugesan - Journal of Systems and Software, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Agile software development advocates self-organizing teams that display high levels of
autonomy. Self-organizing agile teams are meant to share project management activities …

Socio-technical grounded theory for software engineering

R Hoda - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grounded Theory (GT), a sociological research method designed to study social
phenomena, is increasingly being used to investigate the human and social aspects of …

Issues and challenges impacting the successful management of agile-hybrid projects: A grounded theory approach

J Sithambaram, MHNBM Nasir, R Ahmad - International journal of project …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The demand for success in agile projects requires serious attention in addressing its issues
and challenges, besides merely implementing suitable agile methods. A comprehensive …

Adopting DevOps in the real world: A theory, a model, and a case study

WP Luz, G Pinto, R Bonifácio - Journal of Systems and Software, 2019‏ - Elsevier
DevOps is a set of practices and cultural values that aims to reduce the barriers between
development and operations teams. Due to its increasing interest and imprecise definitions …

The role of the project manager in agile software development projects

Y Shastri, R Hoda, R Amor - Journal of Systems and Software, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Agile teams are not meant to have project managers. Instead, agile methods such as Scrum
and XP define roles such as product owner, scrum master, and coach. Studies have …

Method for adaptation and implementation of agile project management methodology

A Rasnacis, S Berzisa - Procedia Computer Science, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Agile methodologies are widely implemented and used around the world. There are over 20
different agile methodologies and their types. Choosing and adaptation of the methodology …

Self-organizing roles on agile software development teams

R Hoda, J Noble, S Marshall - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-organizing teams have been recognized and studied in various forms-as autonomous
groups in socio-technical systems, enablers of organizational theories, agents of knowledge …

The role and characteristics of hybrid approaches to project management in the development of technology-based products and services

F Copola Azenha, D Aparecida Reis… - Project Management …, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
There is a trend of combining agile and traditional project management practices for
technology-based product and service development in the search for more agility. Although …