Start Date
10-12-2017 12:00 AM
Description
Information system development is largely dependent on social interaction and team work. Team composition, team processes, and behavior among, as well as agile practices used by team members play an important role for the success of information system development projects. Especially team resilience, the capacity to recover quickly from crises, is important in an ever-changing environment. Recent research in organizational psychology found team diversity and psychological safety to be important factors for team performance. In increasing diverse teams, these findings become more and more important. In this paper, we propose a model and research design to investigate the effects of team diversity, psychological safety, and social agile practices on team resilience and team performance in agile software development. The proposed model combines recent research in the field of organizational psychology with agile information system research to provide a better understanding of the team-level effects at play in agile software development.
Recommended Citation
Diegmann, Phil and Rosenkranz, Christoph, "Team Diversity and Performance – How Agile Practices and Psychological Safety Interact" (2017). ICIS 2017 Proceedings. 6.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/IS-Development/Presentations/6
Team Diversity and Performance – How Agile Practices and Psychological Safety Interact
Information system development is largely dependent on social interaction and team work. Team composition, team processes, and behavior among, as well as agile practices used by team members play an important role for the success of information system development projects. Especially team resilience, the capacity to recover quickly from crises, is important in an ever-changing environment. Recent research in organizational psychology found team diversity and psychological safety to be important factors for team performance. In increasing diverse teams, these findings become more and more important. In this paper, we propose a model and research design to investigate the effects of team diversity, psychological safety, and social agile practices on team resilience and team performance in agile software development. The proposed model combines recent research in the field of organizational psychology with agile information system research to provide a better understanding of the team-level effects at play in agile software development.