Success Factors for Building and Managing High Performance Agile Software Development Teams
Keywords:
Agile Leadership Effectiveness, High Performance Agile Team, Leadership, Workplace Factors.Abstract
Information technology (IT) project success depends on having a project manager with effective decision-making, leadership, and project management (PM) skills. Project success also depends on completing the project in a given budget, time, and scope. However, there is a limited understanding of the Agile Leadership Effectiveness in Leading High Performance Team. Agile Software Development Team (ASDT) success factors such as organizational, people, process, project management, technical, trust, and so forth. The purpose of this paper is to present and synthesize the success factors generally accepted as critical in building and managing high performance ASDTs. These success factors consisted of ASDT (e.g., structure, member’ competencies, commitment and trust, communications, goals, and collaboration), leading ASDTs (e.g., leadership styles), workplace factors (e.g., cultural, functional and organizational differences), technologies (e.g., development tools), and organizational, people, process, and technical factors. Organizational leaders and practitioners from various industries who are building or managing ASDTs could be of benefits with the researcher’s study outcomes by implementing or developing strategies or processes that could improve ASDT performance for long term sustainable development. High performance ASDT outcomes include improve team overall performance, time to the market, project success rate, and a better safer and healthier organizations or society.
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