Competencies for Managing Activities in Agile Projects

Filho, José Romualdo da Costa; Penha, Renato; Silva, Luciano Ferreira da; Bizarrias, Flávio Santino

doi:10.1007/s40171-022-00311-2

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“…Unlike previous SLR [4], this study explicitly identifies critical attributes in publications focused on team formation within the ASD context. Recent survey studies have delved into specific aspects connected with measurement and predicting capabilities, including personality type [20], personal and organizational competencies [21], and individual attributes [11]. Our study makes a valuable contribution to the existing body of knowledge by identifying 18 novel primary investigations and new parameters for measuring and predicting the capabilities of professionals in the context of ASD.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…A recent study by Costa Filho et al [11] focused on human aspects of ASD. The authors presented the results of an SLR aimed at understanding the competencies of an agile team for managing activities in an agile environment.…”

Section: B Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The urgent need to update our understanding of ASD competencies is driven by the field's rapid evolution and increased adoption of ASD in industry [7], [8], [9]. This update is crucial for optimizing human resources in organizations to achieve project success [10], [11]. Moreover, identifying ASD competencies and capabilities poses a considerable challenge and is essential for various project management activities, such as task assignment [12], teamwork quality [13], and team formation [14], [15], [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

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An Insight into the Capabilities of Professionals and Teams in Agile Software Development: An Update of the Systematic Literature Review

Cunha,

Perkusich,

Guimaraes

et al. 2024

JCOMSS

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Agile Software Development (ASD) confronts the challenge of effectively measurement and predicting the capabilities of software engineers and teams to improve individual performance, team efficiency, and project success. This study delves into exploring and identifying gaps and research prospects in assessing and predicting human capabilities within ASD. Thus, we conducted a Systematic Literature Review, building upon a prior review from 2001 to 2016 by different authors. To encompass primary studies published after 2016, we extended to 2022. Further, our study extends the scope of the previous SLR with a new research question to identify key attributes in publications focused on agile team formation. Our findings disclosed new attributes for evaluating and predicting the capabilities of professionals engaged in ASD, such as Openness to Creativity and Agile Adaptation. These attributes boost individual performance, contribute to ameliorated team productivity, and facilitate the precise composition of teams. Moreover, this study expands our prior study, providing more details on capability identification and research design, extends the analysis of attributes and prediction models, provides a more granular discussion of discoveries and comparisons with prior review, and more indepth discussion about practical implications and thoroughly examines study validity. We observed that technical metrics were more prevalent than social and innovative aspects. Also, the study identified the prediction of agile capabilities as an emerging research domain necessitating further scrutiny due to the scarcity of existing models. The majority of studies (78%) supplied detailed metric descriptions, facilitating the evolution of the capabilities repository and supporting future investigations in this domain. Ultimately, these findings can aid agile practitioners in formulating team composition decisions based on individuals' and teams' appraised and foreseen abilities.

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An Insight into the Capabilities of Professionals and Teams in Agile Software Development: An Update of the Systematic Literature Review

Cunha,

Perkusich,

Guimaraes

et al. 2024

JCOMSS

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“…Agile taskwork provides a clear set of team goals through iterative development and short work cycles, increasing team members' motivation and focus. Therefore, teams respond quickly to changing requirements and deliver high-quality work more quickly (da Costa Filho et al, 2022;Peeters et al, 2022).…”

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Do agile work practices impact team performance through project commitment? Evidence from the information technology industry

Uraon,

Chauhan,

Bharati

et al. 2023

IJPPM

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PurposeDrawing on goal-setting theory and team effectiveness theory, the study aims to examine the impact of agile taskwork and agile teamwork on team performance. In addition, it investigates the mediating effect of project commitment on the impact of agile taskwork and agile teamwork on team performance. Furthermore, the study also tests the moderating role of career level on the impact of agile taskwork and agile teamwork on team performance.Design/methodology/approachSurvey data were collected from 563 employees working in 290 information technology (IT) companies in India using a self-reporting structured questionnaire. Partial least squares path modeling was used to test the hypothesized model, and the Process macro was used to test the moderating effect.FindingsThe results show that agile taskwork and agile teamwork positively affect team performance and project commitment, and project commitment positively impacts team performance. Furthermore, project commitment fully mediates the relationship between agile taskwork and team performance and partially mediates the relationship between agile teamwork and team performance. Furthermore, the career level negatively moderates the impact of agile taskwork and agile teamwork on team performance.Practical implicationsThe study shows the importance of agile work practices and project commitment to enhance team performance. Thus, the study provides managers with two strategies to improve their team performance.Originality/valueThere is a scarcity of research examining the distinct effects of agile taskwork and agile teamwork on team performance and the mediating role of project commitment in these relationships. Furthermore, as per the empirical evidence, no previous research has empirically examined the moderating role of career level in the agile taskwork-team performance and agile teamwork-team performance relationships.

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“…According to Martinsuo (2020), the value of a project is the subjective belief of those who receive the benefits and results of the project. Despite the focus of agile practices on generating value for customers (Beck et al , 2001; da Costa Filho et al , 2022), there is no consensus among academics regarding its dimensionality. Some researchers point out that its definition must consider the intimate customer perspective (Obradović et al , 2016; Liu et al , 2019; Turner and Lecoeuvre, 2017; Voss and Kock, 2013), contrary to financial results (Alahyari et al , 2017).…”

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The customer perception of project value scale: development and validation

Cândido Da Silva,

Bizarrias,

Penha

et al. 2023

EBR

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Purpose Despite the significant interest from researchers and practitioners, the literature on project value measurement from the perspective of the customer is non-existent. This study aims to address this gap by developing and validating a scale to measure project value through a customer lens called the customer perception of project value scale. Design/methodology/approach A list of items was initially generated based on 762 sample responses through a systematic review of the literature and with the participation of specialists. Exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyses and structural equation modelling were used to develop and validate the scale. Findings The authors formulated a four-dimension scale. The dimensions used to measure the second-order construct are customer centrality, process, delivery and cost-benefit. This was validated using a nomological structure. Research limitations/implications The non-consensual nature of what is value in projects restricts the results of this study to the context of a specific group of stakeholders only, that is, the consumers of the projects. The authors also see limitations in the absence of competing scales, which do not allow the comparison of the instrument with alternative measures. Practical implications This study allows project managers and other professionals to measure a project’s perceived value from the customer’s point of view and manage the improvement of this perception. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to propose a scale to measure project value, which advances the literature on project management and value and contributes to academic knowledge and practice by measuring project value from the customer standpoint.

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Competencies for Managing Activities in Agile Projects

Cited by 9 publications

References 132 publications

An Insight into the Capabilities of Professionals and Teams in Agile Software Development: An Update of the Systematic Literature Review

An Insight into the Capabilities of Professionals and Teams in Agile Software Development: An Update of the Systematic Literature Review

Do agile work practices impact team performance through project commitment? Evidence from the information technology industry

The customer perception of project value scale: development and validation

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