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What Agile Teams Can Learn from Sports Coaching

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2010)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 48))

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Experience from numerous agile teams in the transition to agile methods in the Ericsson Operation and Maintenance has shown that teamwork and collaboration are crucial to achieving success. This finding motivated a review of how sports coaches work to build effective teams. The review highlighted certain characteristics that sports coaches deem fundamental to success. This report details these finding and how we use these characteristics to helping teams improve.

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  1. Jansson J., M.S., Dale G., Ph.D., The Seven Secrets of SUCCESSFUL COACHES. Winning The Mental Game, 2006.

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  1. Ericsson Software Campus, Cornamaddy, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

    Padraig Brennan

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  1. Center for Applied Software Engineering, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

    Alberto Sillitti

  2. University of Waikato, 3216, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Angela Martin

  3. Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Xiaofeng Wang

  4. Nokia gate5 GmbH, 10115, Berlin, Germany

    Elizabeth Whitworth

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Brennan, P. (2010). What Agile Teams Can Learn from Sports Coaching. In: Sillitti, A., Martin, A., Wang, X., Whitworth, E. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13054-0_29

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