Self - Organizing Teams in Software Development – Myth or Reality

In an agile business environment, teamwork quality is underlining key element of successful projects and overall team performance. In the Scrum framework, self-managing team is a central element of success. Self-managing teams introduced a new concept of teams and emphasized the importance of indivi...

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Autores principales: Tarik Zaimovic, Muharem Kozic, Amina Efendić, Amel Džanić
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4a6c0550237a489194b34033eab8772f2021-11-30T20:48:32ZSelf - Organizing Teams in Software Development – Myth or Reality10.18421/TEM104-102217-83092217-8333https://doaj.org/article/4a6c0550237a489194b34033eab8772f2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.temjournal.com/content/104/TEMJournalNovember2021_1565_1571.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2217-8309https://doaj.org/toc/2217-8333In an agile business environment, teamwork quality is underlining key element of successful projects and overall team performance. In the Scrum framework, self-managing team is a central element of success. Self-managing teams introduced a new concept of teams and emphasized the importance of individual member effort and the way it affects team performance. The focus of this paper is on teamwork quality in self-managing teams and the way it affects the overall team performance. Teamwork quality is defined by six subconstructs: communication, coordination, balance of member contributions, mutual support, effort, and cohesion, while team performance is defined with effectiveness and efficiency. A survey of 260 respondents from the IT sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina was conducted and in both tested models, our results have confirmed that the highest effect on team effectiveness comes from mutual support, with slightly different – but still significant, impact of team cohesion and effort.Tarik ZaimovicMuharem KozicAmina EfendićAmel DžanićUIKTENarticleagile methodsagile teamteamwork qualityteam performanceself-managing teamsEducationLTechnologyTENTEM Journal, Vol 10, Iss 4, Pp 1565-1571 (2021)
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topic agile methods
agile team
teamwork quality
team performance
self-managing teams
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agile team
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self-managing teams
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Tarik Zaimovic
Muharem Kozic
Amina Efendić
Amel Džanić
Self - Organizing Teams in Software Development – Myth or Reality
description In an agile business environment, teamwork quality is underlining key element of successful projects and overall team performance. In the Scrum framework, self-managing team is a central element of success. Self-managing teams introduced a new concept of teams and emphasized the importance of individual member effort and the way it affects team performance. The focus of this paper is on teamwork quality in self-managing teams and the way it affects the overall team performance. Teamwork quality is defined by six subconstructs: communication, coordination, balance of member contributions, mutual support, effort, and cohesion, while team performance is defined with effectiveness and efficiency. A survey of 260 respondents from the IT sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina was conducted and in both tested models, our results have confirmed that the highest effect on team effectiveness comes from mutual support, with slightly different – but still significant, impact of team cohesion and effort.
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author Tarik Zaimovic
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title Self - Organizing Teams in Software Development – Myth or Reality
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title_fullStr Self - Organizing Teams in Software Development – Myth or Reality
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