Proceedings of the 2019 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2019
DOI: 10.15439/2019f198
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On the Agile Mindset of an Effective Team – An Industrial Opinion Survey

Abstract: In this paper we present the results of an opinion survey among 52 agile practitioners who evaluated the importance of 26 selected elements of the agile mindset to the effectiveness of an agile team. In total, we have identified 70 unique agile mindset elements based on 11 literature sources and 5 interviews with industry experts. 7 elements belonged to the "support for business goals" category, 20 to the "relationships within the team" category, 24 to the "individual features" category, and 19 to the "organiz… Show more

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“…The Agile Manifesto [Highsmith & Fowler, 2001] advocates principles and values such as face-to-face conversation within a development team, motivated individuals, self-organizing teams, and retrospectives at regular intervals. Furthermore, agile team members are expected to be proactive and creative in resolving complex software development problems [Highsmith & Cockburn, 2001;Crawford et al, 2012;Przybyłek & Zakrzewski, 2018;Przybyłek & Kowalski, 2018;Jarzębowicz & Ślesiński, 2018;Miler & Gaida, 2019;Zakrzewski et al, 2019]. However, agile methods do not provide techniques to promote these attitudes.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Agile Manifesto [Highsmith & Fowler, 2001] advocates principles and values such as face-to-face conversation within a development team, motivated individuals, self-organizing teams, and retrospectives at regular intervals. Furthermore, agile team members are expected to be proactive and creative in resolving complex software development problems [Highsmith & Cockburn, 2001;Crawford et al, 2012;Przybyłek & Zakrzewski, 2018;Przybyłek & Kowalski, 2018;Jarzębowicz & Ślesiński, 2018;Miler & Gaida, 2019;Zakrzewski et al, 2019]. However, agile methods do not provide techniques to promote these attitudes.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, Miler and Gaida [4] define agile mindset as "as a set of one's attitudes, behavior and ways of thinking that enhance their team's effectiveness at work following the agile values and principles to the benefit of all." Furthermore, Doz [5] added that strategic agility is needed to face the rapid and uncertain challenges because it is flexible and adaptive but having meaningful and consistent efforts.…”
Section: B Agile Mindsetmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As witnessed by the study of Mordi and Schoop [1] conducted in 2020, there are also relatively few studies on the agile mindset. Among these few papers, [1,12,43] aim to come with a list of the elements of agile mindset. Miler and Gaida [12] conducts a survey with 52 Agile practitioners who evaluate the importance of 26 selected elements of the agile mindset to the effectiveness of an Agile team.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Effective agile individuals, teams and organizations require a particular attitude, way of thinking and behavior so called as agile mindset, beyond the given set of procedures, techniques and rituals [12]. By applying a set of Agile practices of (a) particular Agile method(s), there is no guarantee to utilize the agile mindset properly [1].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%