Organizing self-organizing teams

Rashina Hoda; James Noble; Stuart Marshall

doi:10.1145/1806799.1806843

Organizing self-organizing teams

Rashina Hoda, James Noble, Stuart Marshall

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Abstract

Agile teams are described as "self-organizing". How these teams actually organize themselves in practice, however, is not well understood. Through Grounded Theory research involving 24 Agile practitioners across 14 software organizations in New Zealand and India, we identified six informal roles that team members adopt in order to help their teams self-organize. These roles - Mentor, Co-ordinator, Translator, Champion, Promoter, and Terminator - help teams learn Agile practices, liaise with customers, maintain management support, and remove ineffective team members. Understanding these roles will help software teams become self-organizing, and should guide Agile coaches in working with Agile teams.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICSE 2010 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering
Pages	285-294
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1806799.1806843
Publication status	Published - 23 Jul 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Software Engineering 2010 - Cape Town, South Africa Duration: 2 May 2010 → 8 May 2010 Conference number: 32nd https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6062053/proceeding?isnumber=6062054 (Proceedings)

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Name	Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
Volume	1
ISSN (Print)	0270-5257

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Conference	International Conference on Software Engineering 2010
Abbreviated title	ICSE 2010
Country/Territory	South Africa
City	Cape Town
Period	2/05/10 → 8/05/10
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6062053/proceeding?isnumber=6062054 (Proceedings)

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agile software development
self-organizing teams
software engineering

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Hoda, R, Noble, J & Marshall, S 2010, Organizing self-organizing teams. in ICSE 2010 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, vol. 1, pp. 285-294, International Conference on Software Engineering 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, 2/05/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1806799.1806843

Organizing self-organizing teams. / Hoda, Rashina; Noble, James; Marshall, Stuart.
ICSE 2010 - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. 2010. p. 285-294 (Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering; Vol. 1).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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