Exploring Norms in Agile Software Teams
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2016Metadata
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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement 17th International Conference, PROFES 2016, Trondheim, Norway, November 22-24, 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). 2016, 10027, 458-467. 10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_31Abstract
The majority of software developers work in teams and are thus influenced by team norms. Norms are shared expectations of how to behave and regulate the interaction between team members. Our aim of this study is to gain more knowledge about team norms in software teams and to increase the understanding of how norms influence teamwork in agile software development projects. We conducted a study of norms in four agile teams located in Norway and Malaysia. The analysis of 22 interviews revealed that we could extract a varied set of both injunctive and descriptive norms. Our results suggest that team norms have an important role in enabling team performance.