TY - GEN

T1 - Which Information Help agile Teams the Most? An Experience Report on the Problems and Needs

AU - Kortum, Fabian

AU - Klünder, Jil

AU - Karras, Oliver

AU - Brunotte, Wasja

AU - Schneider, Kurt

N1 - Funding information: This work was funded by the German Research Society (DFG) under the project name Team Dynamics (2018-2020). Grant number 263807701. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was funded by the German Research Society (DFG) under the project name Team Dynamics (2018-2020). Grant number 263807701.

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Fast feedback promotes agile teams to improve their work during the software process, making it crucial for team success. Information systems accelerate the availability of information that result in compact knowledge sources.In practice, feedback in Sprints is often limited to sole progress and performance measures, e.g., burndown charts or velocity diagrams. Sprint insights related to team dynamics are rarely considered, even though they frequently cause project failures, e.g., lack of social interaction. In this paper, we describe a survey study conducted with international members of the software engineering community to reveal which information helps agile teams the most and provides practical support in Sprints.We describe results in an experience report highlighting the frequent information problems and needs of agile teams, considering the perspective of 90 researchers and practitioners. The responses were quantitatively interpreted. The report promotes understanding about how or what kind of information would be useful for agile development teams. Moreover, it reveals what information problems were perceived as crucial for project success and avoidable, considering proper team feedback.The study endorses practical needs for system-aided feedback that supplies knowledge on the human factors in Sprints. The findings are relevant for practitioners and researchers that struggle on improving team feedback based on information needs.

AB - Fast feedback promotes agile teams to improve their work during the software process, making it crucial for team success. Information systems accelerate the availability of information that result in compact knowledge sources.In practice, feedback in Sprints is often limited to sole progress and performance measures, e.g., burndown charts or velocity diagrams. Sprint insights related to team dynamics are rarely considered, even though they frequently cause project failures, e.g., lack of social interaction. In this paper, we describe a survey study conducted with international members of the software engineering community to reveal which information helps agile teams the most and provides practical support in Sprints.We describe results in an experience report highlighting the frequent information problems and needs of agile teams, considering the perspective of 90 researchers and practitioners. The responses were quantitatively interpreted. The report promotes understanding about how or what kind of information would be useful for agile development teams. Moreover, it reveals what information problems were perceived as crucial for project success and avoidable, considering proper team feedback.The study endorses practical needs for system-aided feedback that supplies knowledge on the human factors in Sprints. The findings are relevant for practitioners and researchers that struggle on improving team feedback based on information needs.

KW - experience report

KW - human factors

KW - information needs

KW - sprint feedback

KW - team dynamics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096602686&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/seaa51224.2020.00058

DO - 10.1109/seaa51224.2020.00058

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-1-7281-9533-9

SP - 306

EP - 313

BT - Proceedings - 46th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2020

A2 - Martini, Antonio

A2 - Wimmer, Manuel

A2 - Skavhaug, Amund

ER -