Coaching towards Self-Management in Agile Software Teams
Master thesis
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2015Metadata
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Agile software development methodologies underline the importance of having self-managingteams. These are teams with authority to plan, schedule and otherwise manage their own work.The literature within the software domain is scarce on self-management in relation to agile softwareteams. There is a lot more research on self-managing teams within more general teamsliterature.
Inspired by the teams literature, this report presents an exploratory case study on howcoachesand managers coach towards self-management in agile software teams. The study interviewedboth coaches and managers to explore what behaviors they exhibited and which actions theytook, and howthese affected self-management. The report also discusswhat effects team designhas on coaching and questions some of the designs in the case studied.
The findings suggest that coaches and managers are process-focused when working towardsself-management. There is less focus on self-managing behaviors among individuals and theteam. The review sessions provided by some agile methods were identified as important tocoaching. Intervening in teams work was confirmed as negative to teams self-management