Abstract
Self-assignment is a fundamental to self-organizing teams, however, the factors that motivate agile developers to self-assign tasks are not known. In a pilot study of a software organization in India, we conducted interviews with 12 agile developers. Using descriptive statistical and thematic analysis, we identified three groups of factors motivating the self-assignment: Task-based, developer-based, and opinion-based factors. We found that agile developers give precedence to task-based and developer-based factors over opinion-based factors. Furthermore, majority of the participants preferred to self-assign tasks that give them an opportunity to learn new technology, tools, and domains. This knowledge can be applied to let team members better select tasks of their interest and to conduct future studies into this topic.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, CHASE 2017 |
| Editors | Daniel Graziotin, Rafael Prikladnicki, Meira Levy, Anita Sarma, David Socha |
| Place of Publication | Piscataway NJ USA |
| Publisher | IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Pages | 92-93 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781538640395 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781538640401 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering 2017 - Buenos Aires, Argentina Duration: 23 May 2017 → 23 May 2017 Conference number: 10th https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/7959733/proceeding (Proceedings) |
Workshop
| Workshop | International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering 2017 |
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| Abbreviated title | CHASE 2017 |
| Country/Territory | Argentina |
| City | Buenos Aires |
| Period | 23/05/17 → 23/05/17 |
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Keywords
- influencing factors
- motivation
- self-assignment