Acrobats and safety nets: problematizing large-scale agile software development

KH Rolland, B Fitzgerald, T Dingsøyr… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Agile development methods have become a standard in the software industry, including in
large-scale projects. These methods share a set of underlying assumptions that distinguish …

Responding to change over time: A longitudinal case study on changes in coordination mechanisms in large-scale agile

M Berntzen, V Stray, NB Moe, R Hoda - Empirical Software Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Context Responding to change and continuously improving processes, practices, and
products are core to agile software development. It is no different in large-scale agile, where …

A theory of scrum team effectiveness

C Verwijs, D Russo - ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Scrum teams are at the heart of the Scrum framework. Nevertheless, an integrated and
systemic theory that can explain what makes some Scrum teams more effective than others …

A longitudinal explanatory case study of coordination in a very large development programme: the impact of transitioning from a first-to a second-generation large …

T Dingsøyr, FO Bjørnson, J Schrof… - Empirical Software …, 2023 - Springer
Large-scale agile development has gained widespread interest in the software industry, but
it is a topic with few empirical studies of practice. Development projects at scale introduce a …

Modeling the Transformation of Configuration Management Processes in a Multi-Project Environment

N Dotsenko, I Chumachenko, A Galkin, H Kuchuk… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Human resource management during project implementation in a multi-project environment
requires addressing the resource-constrained project scheduling problem. Agile …

How agile teams make Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) work

V Stray, JH Gundelsby, R Ulfsnes… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Today, many companies allow their employees to work from anywhere, which has changed
how employees coordinate their work and align toward the same goals. Objectives and Key …

Scaling scrum with a customized nexus framework: A report from a joint industry‐academia research project

A Joskowski, A Przybyłek… - Software: Practice and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a wide range of scaling frameworks available, large‐scale agile transformations are
not straightforward undertakings. Few organizations have structures in place that fit the …

More Teams, More Meetings? Toward an Understanding of Multiteam System Meeting Design, Facilitation, and Effectiveness

AV Wolf, KN Hendrick, WS Kramer… - Organizational …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The growing literature on meeting science has begun to offer numerous best practices for
designing and facilitating team meetings. However, similar considerations are limited for …

Attractive Workplaces: What are Engineers Looking For?

NB Moe, V Stray, D Šmite, M Mikalsen - IEEE Software, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Competing for talents requires a conscious effort to offer an attractive workplace, which, until
recently, involved increasing employee empowerment and engagement and offering …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability in software engineering qualitative research through inter-coder agreement

Á González-Prieto, J Perez, J Diaz… - Journal of Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The research on empirical software engineering that uses qualitative data analysis is
increasing. However, most of them do not deepen into the validity of the findings, specifically …