Role clarity deficiencies can wreck agile teams.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the twelve agile principles is to build projects around motivated individuals and trust them to get the job done. Such agile teams must self-organize, but this involves conflict, making self-organization difficult. One area of difficulty is agreeing on everybody's role.

Background

What dynamics arise in a self-organizing team from the negotiation of everybody's role?

Method

We conceptualize observations from five agile teams (work observations, interviews) by Charmazian Grounded Theory Methodology.

Results

We define role as something transient and implicit, not fixed and named. The roles are characterized by the responsibilities and expectations of each team member. Every team member must understand and accept their own roles (Local role cl

SUBMITTER: Barke H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7924487 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature