There has been a recent increase in the use of agile coaches in organizations. Although the
use of the job title is popular, empirical knowledge about the tasks, responsibilities and skills …

Complexity leadership theory (CLT) is about balancing formal and informal organization to
leverage dynamics of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) and produce learning, creativity …

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 …

Software Engineering researchers are constantly looking to improve the quantity and quality
of their research findings through the use of an appropriate research methodology. Over the …

Background: Organizations are adopting agile practices in distributed software development
in order to develop quality software in less time. Using agile software development in …

Starting from software development, Agile approaches are spreading across a broad range
of industries and functions, with many great challenges. Mindset, as one of the crucial …

This paper discusses two qualitative research methods, phenomenography and grounded
theory. We introduce both methods' data collection and analysis processes and the type or …

Evangelists for Agile methods strongly encourage all projects to follow every practice of their
chosen method. Based on a Grounded Theory study involving 40 participants at 16 …

Grounded Theory (GT) is increasingly being used to study the human aspects of Software
Engineering. Unfortunately, the Grounded Theory method is still not widely understood in …

Self-organizing teams are a hallmark of Agile software development, directly a ecting team e
ectiveness and project success. Agile software development, and in particular the Scrum …