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Using a Teamwork Quality Instrument to Improve Agile Teams’ Effectiveness: Practical Use Cases

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Agile Software Development (ASD) has become the most chosen development method. The core fundamentals of ASD are based on Teamwork factors and how valuable it considers individuals and their interactions over processes and tools. Researchers have shown the positive impact of teamwork quality in ASD and the importance of assessing it to increase the chances of succeeding projects in this context. Based on this, some researchers have proposed instruments that can assess ASD teamwork quality. One of these instruments is a bayesian network-based model (TWQ-BN), with its practical utility assessed in a case study presented in previous work. However, there is a lack of practical use cases documented using TWQ-BN to identify process improvement opportunities. This paper addresses this gap by presenting two industry-based use cases to help potential users understand how to use TWQ-BN to define action items to improve the team’s effectiveness. This paper provides better guidance toward adopting TWQ-BN and shows how it can be used as a tool on iteration retrospectives to diagnose the teamwork quality.

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    Arthur Freire, Manuel Neto, Mirko Perkusich, Alexandre Costa, Kyller Gorgônio, Hyggo Almeida & Angelo Perkusich

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Freire, A. et al. (2023). Using a Teamwork Quality Instrument to Improve Agile Teams’ Effectiveness: Practical Use Cases. In: Rocha, C., Santana Júnior, C., De Sá, F., Silva da Silva, T. (eds) Agile Methods. WBMA 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1642. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25648-6_1

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