Why Do Agile Teams Underperform? : A Qualitative Study to Identify Factors That Can Decrease Performance of Agile Software Teams

ISBN-13: 9783659941566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 100 str.

Yavuz Kozak

Opis

Agile methodologies evolved to cope with the changing requirements in management of software projects, in an effort to increase bring business value of products and create higher client satisfaction. At the heart of agile methodologies lies the agile project teams. Therefore, success of agile projects depend on the performance of project teams. In contrary to the driving forces that foster performance of teams, there are barriers that limit their performance and productivity. In this book, factors that limit the performance of teams operating in agile software projects are studied. Qualitative data, collected from interviews with agile project managers is used to identify and present various barriers grouped under three main topics: Interaction and personal perspective, material perspective and agile process perspective.

O autorze

Yavuz Kozak has obtained his MSc. International Project Management degree in 2013 from a joint program between Chalmers University of Technology and Northumbria University. He is an electrical and electronics engineer who is working as an R&D project leader in a reinforcement and composite materials company.