Location

Level 0, Open Space, Owen G. Glenn Building

Start Date

12-15-2014

Description

The widespread use of agile development methods entails a fundamental shift in how large-scale organizations try to cope with complexity and volatility issues of the environment. As many people need to be coordinated, this often results in a team of teams setup called multiteam system. The coordination of several teams in large-scale agile settings is of interest to this research. Based on extant literature, a framework is developed to guide this research project. It attempts to explain the events leading to changes in the coordination configuration and their influences on coordination effectiveness based on punctuated equilibrium theory. By investigating the time dependent interplay between coordination type, locus and direction and its key contingencies, underlying aspects necessary for inter-team coordination will be identified. Based on empirical observations, we show first insights and expect to provide explanations on why some multiteam systems seem to struggle with coordination effectiveness while others do not.

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Dec 15th, 12:00 AM

Exploring Coordination in Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Multiteam Systems Perspective

Level 0, Open Space, Owen G. Glenn Building

The widespread use of agile development methods entails a fundamental shift in how large-scale organizations try to cope with complexity and volatility issues of the environment. As many people need to be coordinated, this often results in a team of teams setup called multiteam system. The coordination of several teams in large-scale agile settings is of interest to this research. Based on extant literature, a framework is developed to guide this research project. It attempts to explain the events leading to changes in the coordination configuration and their influences on coordination effectiveness based on punctuated equilibrium theory. By investigating the time dependent interplay between coordination type, locus and direction and its key contingencies, underlying aspects necessary for inter-team coordination will be identified. Based on empirical observations, we show first insights and expect to provide explanations on why some multiteam systems seem to struggle with coordination effectiveness while others do not.