Behavior-Driven Dynamics in Agile Development: The Effect of Fast Feedback on Teams

Kortum, Fabian; Klünder, Jil; Schneider, Kurt

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“…The plugin addresses the ideology to support and increase the team's understanding and awareness for factorial effects on team-driven sprint behavior and development performance. Previous study results have shown that after suitable preparation of retrospective data, teams can be supported by retrospective computer-aided feedback [8] [15]. However, we believe that the support for such teams in their sprint estimations can further enrich the organizational and development performances with the help of integrated data analytics solutions.…”

Section: A Prodynamics -Retrospectives and Futurespective Supportmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…However, reasons for performance affects are not always easy to explain, in particular since the standard JIRA system only characterizes productivity statistics without further implication. We addressed this problem in enabling teams to access fast feedback through a JIRA plugin called ProDynamics [8]. In Fig.…”

Section: A Prodynamics -Retrospectives and Futurespective Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Towards this, team feedback with focus on past sprints conditions can provide a substantial insight towards earlier experiences, dysfunctional habits or positive performance influences. For example, feedback through retrospective sprint characterization and visualizations benefits of post-mortem summaries, similarly to sprint reports [8]. However, dependency implications or trend highlighting concerning team behavior or performances changes over time are barely considered or hard to grasp.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Productivity information, e.g., velocity during sprints, estimation gaps or sprint interventions become tracked and accessed directly by JIRA. Half of the projects (seven) were granted to obtain a JIRA plugin called ProDynamics [8]. The plugin is based on earlier studies, enabling teams to give and receive additional retrospective feedback for a better knowledge transfer at the end of sprints [8] [9].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Half of the projects (seven) were granted to obtain a JIRA plugin called ProDynamics [8]. The plugin is based on earlier studies, enabling teams to give and receive additional retrospective feedback for a better knowledge transfer at the end of sprints [8] [9]. In this study, we extended the primarily retrospective feedback in ProDynamics with two predictive analytics features.…”

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Sprint Performance Forecasts in Agile Software Development - The Effect of Futurespectives on Team-Driven Dynamics

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Klünder²,

Brunotte³

et al. 2019

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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In agile software development, the sprint performances and dynamics of teams often imply tendencies for the success of a project. Post mortem strategies, e.g., retrospectives help the team to report and share individually gained experiences (positives and negatives) from previous sprints, and enable them to use these experiences for future sprint planning. The interpretation of effects on sprint performance is often subjective, especially with concern to social-driven factors in teams. Involving strategies from predictive analytics in sprint retrospectives could reduce potential interpretation gaps of dynamics, and enhance the pre-knowledge, also awareness situation when preparing for the next sprint. In a case study involving 15 software projects with a total of 130 involved undergraduate students, we investigated the post-effects on team performances and behavioral-driven factors when providing predictive analytics in retrospectives. Besides measures for productivity, we consider human factors, e.g., team structures, communication, meetings and mood affects in teams as well as project success metrics. We developed a unique JIRA plugin called ProDynamics that collects performance information from projects and derives trend-insights for next sprints. The ProDynamics plugin enables the use of a times series and neural network model within a JIRA system to interpret factorial dependencies and behavioral pattern, thus to show the next sprint course of a team.

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Section: A Prodynamics -Retrospectives and Futurespective Supportmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: A Prodynamics -Retrospectives and Futurespective Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hybrid and evolving processes for software and systems—ICSSP 2019 special issue

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Armbrust

Sutton³

2020

J Software Evolu Process

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The volume at hand presents the special issue of the 12th International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP) 2019, which was held in Montreal, Canada, from May 25 to 26, 2019. ICSSP 2019 is the latest in a series of conferences that have been organized by the International Software and Systems Process Association. In our evolving landscape, many companies are making efforts to move towards new technologies and tools, agile principles, and continuous integration and delivery. In doing so, they find opportunity, flexibility, and strength in evolving towards hybrid processes, which are neither purely traditional nor can count as textbook agile. This special issue focuses on hybrid processes.

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Towards a Better Understanding of Team-Driven Dynamics in Agile Software Projects

Kortum

Karras

Klünder

et al. 2019

Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

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Behavior-Driven Dynamics in Agile Development: The Effect of Fast Feedback on Teams

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Sprint Performance Forecasts in Agile Software Development - The Effect of Futurespectives on Team-Driven Dynamics

Sprint Performance Forecasts in Agile Software Development - The Effect of Futurespectives on Team-Driven Dynamics

Hybrid and evolving processes for software and systems—ICSSP 2019 special issue

Towards a Better Understanding of Team-Driven Dynamics in Agile Software Projects

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