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Team dynamics are patterns of interaction among team members that determine the performance of the team. Success of Agile software development depends on team interaction. Team interactions are, however, affected in distributed teams. Through a Grounded Theory study that involved 40 Agile practitioners from 24 different software companies in the USA, India, and Australia, we investigate the key concerns of distributed Agile teams. We found Agile teams depend significantly on team interaction, and adopt six strategies that promote effective team interaction in distributed software development.
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Dorairaj, S., Noble, J., Malik, P. (2012). Understanding Team Dynamics in Distributed Agile Software Development. In: Wohlin, C. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30350-0_4
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