What is it about?
In the present study, we aimed to document the main practical challenges faced by agile software development teams in this adaptation process. We conducted an interview based qualitative study, using techniques from Grounded Theory, and collected data on the experience of five agile software development teams, in three different countries. Overall, the participants reported increased levels of perceived productivity, and we share along practices and recommendations that may be useful for other teams facing similar challenges.
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Why is it important?
Since the world was taken over by the coronavirus pandemic, professionals from all areas have had to adapt to the changes imposed by health measures, in a sudden process, which points to permanent changes in the forms of consumption and work. Besides bringing a rich description of the journeys of the studied teams, our results highlighted four main challenges in the adaptation processes: (1) the full digitization of agile ceremonies, (2) a loss of project awareness, (3) the administration of work-life balance, and (4) the self-management transition in less mature teams.
Perspectives
Our findings suggest that agile teams are fully capable of successfully adapting to working from home, sustaining their productivity pace. Our findings deepen, detail and extend the knowledge acquired by other quantitative and qualitative studies in the recent literature on the software industry in the pandemic, adding to the debate the perspective of processes with the main agile ceremonies, demonstrating how its prerogative of adapting to changes has been shown, in dealing with the biggest global transformation process since its manifesto. We believe that the continuity of research on the topic can provide other specific insights about different categories of workers in software engineering, such as the Scrum roles of Product Owner and Scrum master, in addition to software project management in general, as well as the differentiation of the impact of homework among programmers, testers, designers, UXs and other specialists.
Dr. César França
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
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This page is a summary of: Pandemic agility, May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3528579.3529184.
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