Overcoming challenges in self-organizing agile software teams
Latha Karthigaa Murugesan · 2016
Self-organizing agile team is an important aspect of agile software development and are meant for sharing project management activities such as planning, estimating and requirements elicitation with managers and customers. While existing literature has explored some challenges in self-organizing agile teams, little is known about how the high involvement of self-organizing agile teams overcome the challenges in day-to-day activities. Through a Grounded Theory short study involving two agile practitioners, we identified a set of challenges to practice self-organization. This article compares the literature and the experiences of the agile practitioners to overcome the challenges identified. The article also shares practical implications and guidelines for agile teams and their managers for practicing some of these agile practices.