Views on Agile Leadership for Software Teams: A Case Study with Leaders and Non-Leaders
Resumo
Recent research suggests that agile leadership is regarded as shared, transformational, and dynamic, in the view of technical leaders themselves. Also, it promotes collaboration and a strong sense of belonging, requiring a balance in integrating different organizational cultures. On the other hand, previous research overlooks the perspective of developers who are non-leaders. We conducted a case study involving leaders and non-leaders in two software development teams. The way leaders share leadership activities are similar in terms of technical experience and team tenure but differ in terms of team size, and non-leaders’ aptitude to take on leadership activities. Also, non-leaders’ views on leadership differed from those of leaders; non-leaders considered the leadership they received as individual and hierarchical, in contrast to the leaders’ views, who perceived agile leadership as a shared team attribute. These different points of view provide insights into how the development process can be affected, especially when assigning roles and responsibilities between leaders and non-leaders to achieve agile leadership benefits.
Palavras-chave:
leadership view, agile leadership, non-leaders, leaders, software development
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Panchajanya Varanasi. 2018. A Perspective of Leadership Requirement in Scrum Based Software Development-A Case Study. Master’s thesis. Master’s thesis: Blekinge Institute of Technology.
Elaine Walls. 2019. The value of situational leadership. Community practitioner: the journal of the Community Practitioners’& Health Visitors’ Association 92, 2 (2019), 31–33.
Johann Weichbrodt, Martin Kropp, Robert Biddle, Peggy Gregory, Craig Anslow, Ursina Maria Bühler, Magdalena Mateescu, and Andreas Meier. 2022. Understanding Leadership in Agile Software Development Teams: Who and How?. In International Conference on Agile Software Development. Springer International Publishing Cham, Springer, 99–113. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08169-9_7
Haibo Yang, Sid Huff, and Diane Strode. 2009. Leadership in software development: Comparing perceptions of agile and traditional project managers. AIS Electronic Library -, - (2009), 184. DOI: amcis2009/184/
Robert K Yin. 2009. Case study research: Design and methods. Vol. 5. Sage.
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30/09/2024
Como Citar
ARAÚJO, Narallynne; MASSONI, Tiago; GREN, Lucas.
Views on Agile Leadership for Software Teams: A Case Study with Leaders and Non-Leaders. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE (SBES), 38. , 2024, Curitiba/PR.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2024
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p. 126-135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.2024.3324.
