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Agile Process Improvement: Diagnosis and Planning to Improve Teamwork

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Systems, Software and Service Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2011)

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Agile software development addresses software process improvement within teams. Process improvement, although a central concept in agile development, is still hard to achieve. This paper argues for the use of diagnosis and action planning to improve teamwork in agile software development. Diagnosis and action planning is illustrated in a small and immature team and in a large and more mature team. The action planning focused on improving shared leadership, team orientation and learning. The improvement project provided most new insight for the mature team.

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  1. Acando AS, NO-0159, Oslo, Norway

    Mats Angermo Ringstad

  2. SINTEF, NO-7465, Trondheim, Norway

    Torgeir Dingsøyr & Nils Brede Moe

  3. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Torgeir Dingsøyr

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  1. Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O‘Connor

  2. Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Jan Pries-Heje

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Ringstad, M.A., Dingsøyr, T., Brede Moe, N. (2011). Agile Process Improvement: Diagnosis and Planning to Improve Teamwork. In: O‘Connor, R.V., Pries-Heje, J., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Service Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22206-1_15

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