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People Management in Software Agile Development

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Pedro Thiago R. de Alcântara,

Edna Dias Canedo,

Ruyther Parente da CostaAuthors Info & Claims

SBSI '18: Proceedings of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems

Article No.: 48, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/3229345.3229396

Published: 04 June 2018 Publication History

Abstract

People Management (PM) is part of software project management since the Software Development Process (SDP) depends on the people who do it. In order to maximize the success of software projects, agile methods focus on people and their interactions. However, agile projects still suffer from the risks of failure. Understanding that PM is a complex and central activity in the SDP, this paper aims to map how academic studies describe the PM in the software development environment, what good practices are described by these studies and how the software industry has applied the PM. Therefore it is intended to build a PM model for agile software development approaches. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was carried out in order to obtain data regarding the state of the art of PM in the agile development, and also a questionnaire format survey, which was answered by professionals working in the industry to map the application of PM mechanisms in software development organizations. From the data obtained in the SLR and in the questionnaires applied it was proposed a model of People Management. The proposed model was generically constructed to serve as a PM guide in agile projects, regardless organization characteristics and the development team where the model will be implemented.

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Index Terms

People Management in Software Agile Development
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Project management techniques

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Abdul Hamid UIrimescu DZaman M(2022)Challenges of Complex Software Development for Emerging Technologies in Automotive Industry: Bridging the Gap of Knowledge Between the Industry PractitionersSAE Technical Paper Series10.4271/2022-01-0109Online publication date: 29-Mar-2022
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Bhandari RColomo-Palacios R(2019)Holacracy In Software Development Teams: A Multivocal Literature Review2019 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA)10.1109/ICCSA.2019.00013(140-145)Online publication date: Jul-2019
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