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    • Changes in perceived productivity of software engineers during COVID-19 pandemic: The voice of evidence 

      Smite, Darja; Tkalich, Anastasiia; Moe, Nils Brede; Papatheocharous, Efi; Klotins, Eriks; Buvik, Marte Pettersen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a natural experiment of an unprecedented scale as companies closed their offices and sent employees to work from home. Many managers were concerned that their engineers would ...

    • Decentralized decision-making and scaled autonomy at Spotify 

      Smite, Darja; Moe, Nils Brede; Floryan, Marcin; Gonzalez-Huerta, Javier; Dorner, Michael; Sablis, Aivars (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      While modern software companies strive to increase team autonomy to enable them to successfully operate the piece of software they develop and deploy, efficient ways to orchestrate the work of multiple autonomous teams ...

    • Defining a Remote Work Policy: Aligning Actions and Intentions 

      Smite, Darja; Moe, Nils Brede (Chapter, 2023)
      After the long period of forced work from home, many knowledge workers have not only developed a strong habit of remote work, but also consider flexibility as their personal right and no longer as a privilege. Existing ...

    • Exploring cross-site networking in large-scale distributed projects 

      Sablis, Aivars; Smite, Darja; Moe, Nils Brede (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;11271, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Context: Networking in a distributed large-scale project is complex because of many reasons: time zone problems can make it challenging to reach remote contacts, teams rarely meet face-to-face which means that remote project ...

    • Finding the Sweet Spot for Organizational Control and Team Autonomy in Large-Scale Agile Software Development 

      Moe, Nils Brede; Smite, Darja; Paasivaara, Maria; Lassenius, Casper (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Agile methods and the related concepts of employee empowerment, self-management, and autonomy have reached large-scale software organizations and raise questions about commonly adopted principles for authority distribution. ...

    • From Collaboration to Solitude and Back: Remote Pair Programming During COVID-19 

      Smite, Darja; Mikalsen, Marius; Moe, Nils Brede; Stray, Viktoria; Klotis, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Along with the increasing popularity of agile software development, software work has become much more social than ever. Contemporary software teams rely on a variety of collaborative practices, such as pair programming, ...

    • From forced Working-From-Home to voluntary working-from-anywhere: Two revolutions in telework 

      Smite, Darja; Moe, Nils Brede; Klotins, Eriks; Gonzalez-Huerta, Javier (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The COVID-19 outbreak has admittedly caused interruptions to production, transportation, and mobility, therefore, having a significant impact on the global supply and demand chain’s well-functioning. But what happened to ...

    • Improving productivity through corporate hackathons: A multiple case study of two large-scale agile organizations 

      Moe, Nils Brede; Ulfsnes, Rasmus; Stray, Viktoria; Smite, Darja (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Software development companies organize hackathons to encourage innovation. Despite many benefits of hackathons, in large-scale agile organizations where many teams work together, stopping the ongoing work results in a ...

    • Innovation in Large-scale agile - Benefits and Challenges of Hackathons when Hacking from Home 

      Ulfsnes, Rasmus; Stray, Viktoria; Moe, Nils Brede; Smite, Darja (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Hackathons are events in which diverse teams work together to explore and develop solutions, software, or even ideas. Hackathons have been recognized not only as public events for hacking but also as a corporate mechanism ...

    • Overcoming cultural barriers to being agile in distributed teams 

      Smite, Darja; Moe, Nils Brede; Gonzalez-Huerta, Javier (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Context: Agile methods in offshored projects have become increasingly popular. Yet, many companies have found that the use of agile methods in coordination with companies located outside the regions of early agile adopters ...

    • The Role of Responsiveness to Change in Large Onboarding Campaigns 

      Smite, Darja; Moe, Nils Brede (Chapter, 2023)
      Onboarding is a process of organizational socialization of the new hires, that includes recruitment, orientation, training, coaching and support. While onboarding individuals into an organization is a rather straightforward ...

    • "When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do": Cultural Barriers to Being Agile in Distributed Teams 

      Smite, Darja; Gonzalez-Huerta, Javier; Moe, Nils Brede (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      With the growing interest of adopting agile methods in offshored process, many companies realized that the use of agile methods and practices in companies located outside the location of early adopters of agile methods may ...

    • Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies 

      Smite, Darja; Moe, Nils Brede; Hildrum, Jarle Moss; Huerta, Javier Gonzalez; Mendez, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      In early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic forced employees in tech companies worldwide to abruptly transition from working in offices to working from their homes. During two years of predominantly working from home, employees ...