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Software is an intangible productsoftware . Therefore, it is difficult to understand its development process using our regular senses; the exact status of the development process is not always clear; misunderstandings may emerge. Consequently, it is sometimes difficult to establish trustful professional relationships, and team members may tend not to trust each other. This chapter focuses on how agile software development fosters trust among team members. We first explain how agile software development makes the development process more transparent and thus makes the process and the developed product more understandable. Then, using the “prisoner’s dilemma”prisoner's dilemma framework taken from game theorygame theory , we explain why and how a transparent process does indeed foster trust among team members. Based on this working assumption, i.e., that the transparent nature of agile software development fosters trust among team members, we focus on how agile software development enhances ethicalethics behavior and diversitydiversity in a way that improves process and product quality.
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Hazzan, O., Dubinsky, Y. (2008). Trusttrust . In: Agile Software Engineering. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-198-5_9
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