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Agile Software Development Teams

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  • Provides unique insights into how agile practices influence the work mode and performance of software development teams
  • Presents a novel approach to measuring the performance of agile software development teams
  • Based on a large-scale study of unparalleled scope, with insights from more than 450 professional software engineers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Progress in IS (PROIS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction

    • Christoph Schmidt
    Pages 1-6
  3. Agile Software Development

    • Christoph Schmidt
    Pages 7-35
  4. Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations

    • Christoph Schmidt
    Pages 37-63
  5. Research Methodology

    • Christoph Schmidt
    Pages 65-86
  6. Empirical Validation

    • Christoph Schmidt
    Pages 87-113
  7. Discussion

    • Christoph Schmidt
    Pages 115-124
  8. Conclusion

    • Christoph Schmidt
    Pages 125-126
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 127-184

About this book

This book explores how agile development practices, in particular pair programming, code review and automated testing, help software development teams to perform better. Agile software engineering has become the standard software development paradigm over the last decade, and the insights provided here are taken from a large-scale survey of 80 professional software development teams working at SAP SE in Germany. In addition, the book introduces a novel measurement tool for assessing the performance of software development teams. No previous study has researched this topic with a similar data set comprising insights from more than 450 professional software engineers.

Reviews

“The book’s interesting concepts and approach make it useful for a general computer science audience: practitioners in the computer industry as well as researchers in the area of software development. The book could be useful for students who are planning to work in companies that have a teamwork approach to software development. The topic is presented in a very good manner and the technical quality is high. The almost 300 references represent an extensive list of resources for further reading.” (M. Ivanović, Computing Reviews, computingreviews.com, June, 2016)

Authors and Affiliations

  • München, Germany

    Christoph Schmidt

About the author

Christoph Schmidt is an IT consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. From 2011-2014, he worked as a researcher in a joint research project of the Business School of the University of Mannheim and SAP SE. During this time, he conducted empirical studies on agile software engineering, software development team performance and large-scale software development projects. His study results were published in various international conferences including the International Conference on Information Systems and the IEEE International Conference of Software Engineering.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Agile Software Development Teams

  • Authors: Christoph Schmidt

  • Series Title: Progress in IS

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26057-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26055-6Published: 29 December 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79885-1Published: 28 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26057-0Published: 17 December 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2196-8705

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-8713

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 184

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Business Information Systems, Software Engineering, Software Management, Project Management

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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