AgileRoadmap: An Approach to Implement Agile Practices in Teams

Using Agile Practices to Influence Motivation within IT Project Teams

This exploratory study of IT project teams in Sweden and Ireland investigates how three agile practices, namely daily stand-ups, iteration planning and iteration retrospectives, contribute to motivation or demotivation in an agile team. Several studies recognise that motivating staff is critically important for a project manager and have identified factors that motivate IT project staff in part...

Best Practices for Configuring Globally Distributed Agile Teams

Drawing upon the extant literature this paper proposes a conceptual framework based upon the dimensions of agility, team structure, and virtualness to explore the question of how agile software development teams can be successfully configured in globally distributed environments. Based upon interviews conducted among five globally distributed agile teams a set of best practices is presented bas...

Managing Agile Teams: An Inquiring Systems Perspective

Merging Nursing Teams? Key Points to Implement

Retention of nurses is essential to manage turnover costs and nursing shortages. An area that has remained relatively unstudied is the impact and success of inpatient nursing mergers. A single site qualitative descriptive triangulated case study research design was developed to explore the overarching strategy in an intra-hospital merger of clinical units that included leadership tactics and st...

Don't Forget to Breathe: A Controlled Trial of Mindfulness Practices in Agile Project Teams

While the effects of mindfulness are increasingly explored across different fields, little is known about the application of these practices in agile project teams. In this paper we report on a rigorous controlled trial executed to understand the impact of the three minute breathing exercise on the perceived effectiveness of stand-up meetings. We compare (1) an active group using a three minute...