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Improving Businesses Success by Managing Interactions among Agile Teams in Large Organizations

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To achieve successful business, large software companies employ Agile Software Development to be fast and responsive in addressing customer needs. However, a large number of small, independent and fast teams suffer from excessive inter-team interactions, which may lead to paralysis. In this paper we provide a framework to understand how such interactions affect business goals dependent on speed. We detect factors causing observable interaction effects that generate speed waste. By combining data and literature, we provide recommendations to manage such factors, complementing current Agile practices so that they can be adapted in large software organizations.

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  1. Software Engineering Division, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

    Antonio Martini, Lars Pareto & Jan Bosch

  2. Software Engineering Division, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

    Antonio Martini, Lars Pareto & Jan Bosch

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  1. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Georg Herzwurm

  2. University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Tiziana Margaria

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Martini, A., Pareto, L., Bosch, J. (2013). Improving Businesses Success by Managing Interactions among Agile Teams in Large Organizations. In: Herzwurm, G., Margaria, T. (eds) Software Business. From Physical Products to Software Services and Solutions. ICSOB 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39336-5_7

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