Self-organizing teams have been recognized and studied in various forms-as autonomous
groups in socio-technical systems, enablers of organizational theories, agents of knowledge …

Software Engineering researchers are constantly looking to improve the quantity and quality
of their research findings through the use of an appropriate research methodology. Over the …

CONTEXT: Customer collaboration is a vital feature of Agile software development.
OBJECTIVE: This article addresses the importance of adequate customer involvement on …

Grounded Theory is a research method that generates theory from data and is useful for
understanding how people resolve problems that are of concern to them. Although the …

An increasing number of companies aim to enable their development teams to work in an
agile manner. When introducing agile teams, companies face several challenges. This …

Context Empirical research in software engineering contributes towards developing
scientific knowledge in this field, which in turn is relevant to inform decision-making in …

Context Software patterns encapsulate expert knowledge for constructing successful
solutions to recurring problems. Although a large collection of software patterns is available …

To date, few Agile transition and adoption frameworks have been proposed in the software
industry. However, using them is not easy in practice and primarily requires a huge …

This study aims to identify how traditional organizational roles are transformed towards Agile
roles. A grounded theory study with 5 software teams in a large software development …

Abstract Grounded Theory Method offers a rigorous way to explore a domain, with an
emphasis on discovering new insights, testing those insights, and building partial …