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This research explored aspects of agile teamwork initiatives associated with positive socio-psychological phenomena, with a focus on phenomena outside the scope of traditional management, organizational, and software engineering research. Agile teams were viewed as complex adaptive socio-technical systems. Qualitative grounded theory was used to explore the socio-psychological characteristics of agile teams under the umbrella research question: What is the experience of being in an agile software development team? Results included a deeper understanding of the link between agile practices and positive team outcomes such as motivation and cohesion.
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Whitworth, E., Biddle, R. (2007). Motivation and Cohesion in Agile Teams. In: Concas, G., Damiani, E., Scotto, M., Succi, G. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4536. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73101-6_9
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