Change management: Developing a tool to foster adaptive collaboration

Offner, Anne; Swindler, Stephanie; Padula, Greg; King, Anthony; Fedora, Joseph; Malone, LaToya

doi:10.1109/cts.2011.5928743

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“…Achieving to a cooperative process based on the communication and collaboration between members who value and trust each other is critical for success of agile methods (Dorairaj et al, 2012;Offner et al, 2011). Human aspects most of the time acts as an obstacle in agile adoption (Tolfo et al, 2011).…”

Section: People Related Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Obstacles in Moving to Agile Software Development Methods; At a Glance

Gandomani

Zulzalil

Ghani

et al. 2013

Journal of Computer Science

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It is only less than a decade that agile SD methods were introduced and got popular steadily. The defined values in these methods and their outcomes have motivated many software producers to use these methods. Since migration from traditional software development methods to agile methods is growing highly, managers of the companies should be aware of problems, hindrances and challenges they may face with during the agile transformation process. This study focused on challenges which companies may face with and it is necessary that managers think about solving them. Classifying them into four main categories; organization and management, people, process and tools are the areas that challenges have been seen in recent studies.

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Section: People Related Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Obstacles in Moving to Agile Software Development Methods; At a Glance

Gandomani

Zulzalil

Ghani

et al. 2013

Journal of Computer Science

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“…Offner A., et al, [27] developed a tool to foster AC through the use of models based on theories of organizational psychology. The tool can be used to assess and influence individual behavior and group performance.…”

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Adaptive Collaboration Model for Organizational Change

Essawi¹,

Tilchin²

2012

AJIBM

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In order to survive and develop effectively in an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, an organization should have the capacity for continuous and adaptive changes. Change can only occur through the collaboration of participants of this process. Collaboration should be adaptive. Adaptability of collaboration is expressed by its adjustment to dynamic organizational changes. Adaptive collaboration (AC) is an organizational capacity needed for coping with adaptive changes. The goal of the developed model is to shape AC, which provides stimulation and facilitation of collaborative interaction so as to face the challenges of conducting adaptive changes. The suggested DOCA (Determining, Organizing, Creating, Assigning) model includes these components: Determining an infrastructure of AC; Organizing AC; Creating AC groups; Assigning collaborative group members to perform the tasks required to conduct adaptive changes. Determining AC infrastructure consists in building an adaptive organizational structure, and forming dynamic change and task structures. Organizing AC consists in defining the conditions that provide creation of suitable AC groups. Creating AC groups is meant to encourage facilitation of adaptive collaboration. Assigning the group members tasks allows stimulation for collaborative interactions.

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“…For instance, in some studies, training has been addressed as serious facilitator to cope with the adoption related issues [6], [7]. Furthermore, selection of talented people and taking advantages from full-time mentoring services were reported as other supporting factors to avoid the challenges of Scrum and other Agile methods adoption [8], [9].…”

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Introduction of Scrum in An Elite Team: A Case Study

Khosravi¹,

Gandomani²,

Fahimian³

2017

JSW

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Scrum as one of the most popular software methodologies, has been growly employed by software teams and companies in recent years. This method provides several simple and effective practices to manage software projects. However, despite of its simple structure, lots of challenges and issues have been reported during Scrum adoption. Te main aim of this paper is to report the main issues of introducing Scrum in a particular team. Team members had been selected within a nomination process. The adoption process took about 6 months, and adoption proceeded during a real, but not critical project. Results showed several challenges and barriers the team faced with. The most critical issues were regarding team collaboration and commitment. Moreover, collaboration with product owner and sprint planning were the others major issues. Finally, while the results showed a few challenges regarding planning game and retrospective meeting, no challenge has been reported regarding tools and technology.

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Change management: Developing a tool to foster adaptive collaboration

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Obstacles in Moving to Agile Software Development Methods; At a Glance

Obstacles in Moving to Agile Software Development Methods; At a Glance

Adaptive Collaboration Model for Organizational Change

Introduction of Scrum in An Elite Team: A Case Study

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