Primary care health services in the Irish Republic have undergone fundamental transformation with the establishment of multidisciplinary primary care teams nationwide. Primary care teams provide a community-based health service delivered through a range of health professionals in an integrated way. As part of this initiative ten pilot teams were established in 2003. This research was undertaken...

This longitudinal study examined how an information systems development team transitioned to an agile way of working. We describe the main events of a large, inter-organizational project, where agile methods and practices were applied for the first time. The organizations involved had a long tradition in heavy, waterfall style projects, and many of those past projects had severe challenges. We ...

While Agile methods were originally introduced for small, tightly coupled teams, leaner ways of working are becoming a practical method to run entire enterprises. As the emphasis of user experience work has inherently been on the early phases before starting the development, it also needs to be adapted to the Agile way of working. To improve the current practices in Agile user experience work, ...

In late 2007, a delegation from the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army Navy visited the Defence Medical Services which incorporated a short visit to the Institute of Naval Medicine. Subsequent to this, staff talks between First Sea Lord and Admiral Wu, the Chinese Navy Chief of Staff, identified naval medicine as one of four potential areas of co-operation between the two Navies. The Institute of ...

In this paper, we extend the large team information sharing problem to consider dynamic facts, where the value of facts about the environment being observed can change over time. Dynamic facts are challenging because the team must repeatedly converge to consistent, accurate beliefs over time, without necessarily knowing if or when the fact changes values. We discover an interesting, emergent ph...

This research focused on the question: What leadership constraints contribute to the complexity of the working environment faced by global virtual team leaders and how do those leadership constraints impact the behavior of leaders when they are trying to meet team member expectations? This qualitative study of a high performing team within a multinational corporation (MNC) identified four const...

Purpose – Research testing a complex process model, incorporating moderating and mediating mechanisms associated with virtual team (VT) performance, remains rare. This paper aims to introduce trust climate as a crucial boundary condition for high performance in VTs. It also aims to propose a moderated-indirect model such that the relationship between team goals and task performance is mediated ...

The interaction structure of problem solving teams in design and other domains, and its effects on ideation outcomes is a well-explored topic in the study of team cognition in problem solving and design. Much less is known on how changes in team interaction structure influence the development of mental models over the course of work on a problem. This study aims to understand the relationship b...

Context. Large-scale software development projects are those consisting of a large number of teams, maybe even spread across multiple locations, and working on large and complex software tasks. That means that neither a team member individually nor an entire team holds all the knowledge about the software being developed and teams have to communicate and coordinate their knowledge. Therefore, t...

OBJECTIVE Building surgical teams is one attempt to ensure the health-care system becomes more efficient, but how is 'efficiency' understood or interpreted? The aim was to study how organized surgical team members and their leaders understood operating room efficiency. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING A 1100-bed Swedish university hospital. PARTICIPANTS Eleven participants, nine team mem...