Attaining High-performing Software Teams with Agile and Lean Practices: An Empirical Case Study
This addresses performance improvement for software teams, but it is incremental as it builds on existing agile and lean frameworks.
The paper tackled the problem of how self-organized software teams can achieve high performance using agile and lean practices, finding through a qualitative case study that these practices help teams attain higher performance.
This paper presents an empirical study on how self- organized software teams could attain high performance using agile and lean practices. In particular, the paper qualitatively examines characteristics of high performance and self- organization in one project team. The case under study is a customer-driven student project, carried out to develop an alpha-version prototype. The paper also studies how certain agile software practices aid in initialising self-organization in the team. The main results indicate that self-organization as supported by certain Agile and Lean practices helps teams in achieving higher performance.