Ramon Nóbrega dos Santos
Ademar França de Sousa Neto
ABSTRACT
[Context] Multiple models (or instruments) for measuring Teamwork Quality (TWQ) and Teamwork Effectiveness (TWE) for Agile Software Development (ASD) have been created. However, such models have different constructs and measures, with a limited understanding of how they are related and have evolved. [Goal] Our goal is to identify all ASD instruments to gain insights into the evolution of specific instruments for ASD. [Method] We performed a systematic review methodology using a search string and a forward snowballing approach to identify the specific instruments that assess TWQ and TWE. Later, we conducted a frequency analysis of the factors measured by these ASD instruments. [Results] We provided a comprehensive view of the evolution of teamwork instruments in ASD and classified them into Generic teamwork instruments and Agile-based teamwork instruments. We found that these instruments have evolved with the more specialized factors specific to the agile context. In addition, they have semantically similar factors with different factor names, pointing to the need for terminology standardization. [Conclusion] A conceptual framework integrating the instrument factors within the agile context is needed. We advocate further studies on this topic, aiming to develop a unified taxonomy to be taken as a reference for constructing new teamwork instruments.
- Clayton P Alderfer. 1983. An intergroup perspective on group dynamics.Technical Report. Yale Univ New Haven CT School of Organization and Management.Google Scholar
- Neil Anderson and Michael A West. 1996. The Team Climate Inventory: Development of the TCI and its applications in teambuilding for innovativeness. European Journal of work and organizational psychology 5, 1 (1996), 53–66.Google Scholar
- Phillip G Armour. 2002. The spiritual life of projects. Commun. ACM 45, 1 (2002), 11–14.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Terry L Dickinson and Robert M McIntyre. 1997. A conceptual framework for teamwork measurement. In Team performance assessment and measurement. Psychology Press, 31–56.Google Scholar
- Kim Dikert, Maria Paasivaara, and Casper Lassenius. 2016. Challenges and success factors for large-scale agile transformations: A systematic literature review. Journal of Systems and Software 119 (2016), 87–108.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Torgeir Dingsøyr, Tor Erlend Fægri, Tore Dybå, Børge Haugset, and Yngve Lindsjørn. 2016. Team performance in software development: research results versus agile principles. IEEE software 33, 4 (2016), 106–110.Google Scholar
- Torgeir Dingsøyr and Yngve Lindsjørn. 2013. Team performance in agile development teams: findings from 18 focus groups. In Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 14th International Conference, XP 2013, Vienna, Austria, June 3-7, 2013. Proceedings 14. Springer, 46–60.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Arthur Freire, Manuel Neto, Mirko Perkusich, Kyller Gorgônio, Hyggo Almeida, and Angelo Perkusich. 2021. Towards a comprehensive understanding of agile teamwork: A literature-based thematic network. SEKE.Google Scholar
- Arthur Freire, Mirko Perkusich, Renata Saraiva, Hyggo Almeida, and Angelo Perkusich. 2018. A Bayesian networks-based approach to assess and improve the teamwork quality of agile teams. Information and Software Technology 100 (2018), 119–132.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Eliezer Goncalves, Patrícia Lima, Cristina Cerdeiral, Bruna Diirr, and Gleison Santos. 2021. TACT: An insTrument to Assess the organizational ClimaTe of agile teams-A Preliminary Study. Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development 9 (2021), 18–1.Google Scholar
- Lucas Gren, Richard Torkar, and Robert Feldt. 2015. Group Maturity and Agility, Are They Connected?–A Survey Study. In 2015 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications. IEEE, 1–8.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Richard A Guzzo and Gregory P Shea. 1992. Group performance and intergroup relations in organizations. (1992).Google Scholar
- JR Hackman. 1987. The design of work teams. In JW Lorsch (Ed.), Handbook of Organizational Behavior, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (1987).Google Scholar
- Martin Hoegl and Hans Georg Gemuenden. 2001. Teamwork quality and the success of innovative projects: A theoretical concept and empirical evidence. Organization science 12, 4 (2001), 435–449.Google Scholar
- Daniel R Ilgen, John R Hollenbeck, Michael Johnson, and Dustin Jundt. 2005. Teams in organizations: From input-process-output models to IMOI models. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 56 (2005), 517–543.Google ScholarCross Ref
- BA Kitchenham and Stuart M. Charters. 2007. Guidelines for performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering. Technical Report. Citeseer.Google Scholar
- Pui-Wa Lei and Qiong Wu. 2007. Introduction to structural equation modeling: Issues and practical considerations. Educational Measurement: issues and practice 26, 3 (2007), 33–43.Google Scholar
- Yngve Lindsjørn, Dag IK Sjøberg, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Gunnar R Bergersen, and Tore Dybå. 2016. Teamwork quality and project success in software development: A survey of agile development teams. Journal of Systems and Software 122 (2016), 274–286.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Lina Lukusa, Sharon Geeling, Shallen Lusinga, and Ulrike Rivett. 2020. Teamwork and project success in agile software development methods: A case study in higher education. In Eighth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality. 885–891.Google ScholarDigital Library
- George Marsicano, Fabio QB da Silva, Carolyn B Seaman, and Breno Giovanni Adaid-Castro. 2020. The Teamwork Process Antecedents (TPA) questionnaire: developing and validating a comprehensive measure for assessing antecedents of teamwork process quality. Empirical Software Engineering 25 (2020), 3928–3976.Google ScholarDigital Library
- John Mathieu, M Travis Maynard, Tammy Rapp, and Lucy Gilson. 2008. Team effectiveness 1997-2007: A review of recent advancements and a glimpse into the future. Journal of management 34, 3 (2008), 410–476.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Claudia de O Melo, Daniela S Cruzes, Fabio Kon, and Reidar Conradi. 2013. Interpretative case studies on agile team productivity and management. Information and Software Technology 55, 2 (2013), 412–427.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Nils Brede Moe and Torgeir Dingsøyr. 2008. Scrum and team effectiveness: Theory and practice. In Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 9th International Conference, XP 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14, 2008. Proceedings 9. Springer, 11–20.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Nils Brede Moe, Torgeir Dingsøyr, and Tore Dybå. 2010. A teamwork model for understanding an agile team: A case study of a Scrum project. Information and software technology 52, 5 (2010), 480–491.Google Scholar
- Nils Brede Moe, Torgeir Dingsøyr, and Emil A Røyrvik. 2009. Putting agile teamwork to the test–an preliminary instrument for empirically assessing and improving agile software development. In Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 10th International Conference, XP 2009, Pula, Sardinia, Italy, May 25-29, 2009. Proceedings 10. Springer, 114–123.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Erica Mourão, João Felipe Pimentel, Leonardo Murta, Marcos Kalinowski, Emilia Mendes, and Claes Wohlin. 2020. On the performance of hybrid search strategies for systematic literature reviews in software engineering. Information and Software Technology 123 (2020), 106294.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Jorge Pérez, Jessica Díaz, Javier Garcia-Martin, and Bernardo Tabuenca. 2020. Systematic literature reviews in software engineering—Enhancement of the study selection process using Cohen’s kappa statistic. Journal of Systems and Software 168 (2020), 110657.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Kai Petersen, Robert Feldt, Shahid Mujtaba, and Michael Mattsson. 2008. Systematic mapping studies in software engineering. In 12th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) 12. 1–10.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Alexander Poth, Mario Kottke, and Andreas Riel. 2020. Evaluation of agile team work quality. In Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming–Workshops: XP 2020 Workshops, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 8–12, 2020, Revised Selected Papers 21. Springer, 101–110.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Abirami Radhakrishnan, Jigish Zaveri, Dessa David, and John Stephen Davis. 2022. The impact of project team characteristics and client collaboration on project agility and project success: An empirical study. European Management Journal 40, 5 (2022), 758–777.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Daniel Russo and Klaas-Jan Stol. 2021. PLS-SEM for software engineering research: An introduction and survey. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 54, 4 (2021), 1–38.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Eduardo Salas, Dana E Sims, and C Shawn Burke. 2005. Is there a “big five” in teamwork?Small group research 36, 5 (2005), 555–599.Google Scholar
- Pedro Serrador and Jeffrey K Pinto. 2015. Does Agile work?—A quantitative analysis of agile project success. International journal of project management 33, 5 (2015), 1040–1051.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Stavros Stavru. 2014. A critical examination of recent industrial surveys on agile method usage. Journal of Systems and Software 94 (2014), 87–97.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Diane Strode. 2016. Applying Adapted big five teamwork theory to agile software development. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.03549 (2016).Google Scholar
- Diane Strode, Torgeir Dingsøyr, and Yngve Lindsjorn. 2022. A teamwork effectiveness model for agile software development. Empirical Software Engineering 27, 2 (2022), 56.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dothang Truong and Thawatchai Jitbaipoon. 2016. How can agile methodologies be used to enhance the success of information technology projects?International Journal of Information Technology Project Management (IJITPM) 7, 2 (2016), 1–16.Google Scholar
- Marcel F Van Assen. 2000. Agile-based competence management: the relation between agile manufacturing and time-based competence management. International Journal of Agile Management Systems 2, 2 (2000), 142–155.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Viswanath Venkatesh and Fred D Davis. 2000. A theoretical extension of the technology acceptance model: Four longitudinal field studies. Management science 46, 2 (2000), 186–204.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Christiaan Verwijs and Daniel Russo. 2023. A theory of scrum team effectiveness. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (2023).Google Scholar
- Susan A Wheelan and Judith M Hochberger. 1996. Validation studies of the group development questionnaire. Small group research 27, 1 (1996), 143–170.Google Scholar
- Claes Wohlin. 2014. Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering. In Proceedings of the 18th international conference on evaluation and assessment in software engineering. 1–10.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Claes Wohlin, Marcos Kalinowski, Katia Romero Felizardo, and Emilia Mendes. 2022. Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies. Information and Software Technology 147 (2022), 106908.Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Evolution of Teamwork Quality Instruments in Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review
Recommendations
Systematic literature review on agile practices in global software development
Abstract ContextDeveloping software in distributed development environments exhibits coordination, control and communication challenges. Agile practices, which demand frequent communication and self-organization between remote sites, are increasingly ...
A literature review of agile practices and their effects in scientific software development
SECSE '11: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and EngineeringThe nature of scientific research and the development of scientific software have similarities with processes that follow the agile manifesto: responsiveness to change and collaboration are of the utmost importance. But how well do current scientific ...
The Combination of Agile and Lean in Software Development: An Experience Report Analysis
AGILE '11: Proceedings of the 2011 Agile ConferenceThere has been a noticeable focus shift from agile methods such as extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum to lean software development in the last several years, which is indicated as â from agile to leanâ . However, the reality may not be as simple or ...
Comments