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Agile Teamwork Quality – Reflect Your Team While Playing and Identify Actions for Empowerment

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2023)

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Agile working is based on teams. To perform their tasks each team has to find ways to establish and improve the way they work. Agile Teamwork Quality is an approach to reflect and improve the teamwork capability systematically. To reflect the current team quality level a gamification approach is proposed. The game can be part of the cyclic retrospectives or other team events. The game presents typical scenarios respectively cases which can happen. The team has to argue why this also can happen or not in their team. These case discussion promote awareness about the team’ current situation. The awareness is used to initiate improvement actions in real world after the game. The presented case study of the Volkswagen Group IT shows the facilitation of the teamwork quality.

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Poth, A., Kottke, M., Schardt, M. (2023). Agile Teamwork Quality – Reflect Your Team While Playing and Identify Actions for Empowerment. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Riel, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1891. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42310-9_2

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