Obstacles to decision making in Agile software development teams
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This research defines decisions made across four periods of the sprint cycle based on input from a focus group conducted with 43 people on agile teams. Results indicate that Sprint Planning includes decisions about planning work for the subsequent sprint, Sprint Execution includes tactical implementation and development decisions, Sprint Review includes decisions about continuing future sprints based on customer product satisfaction, and Sprint Retrospective includes decisions for improving the sprint process. Six key decision making obstacles were also identified. Keywords-component; sprint decisions; decision making; sprint planning; retrospective; decision obstacles
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of Systems and Software
دوره 85 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012