Title :
Enhancing the Performance of Software Development Virtual Teams through the Use of Agile Methods: A Pilot Study
Author :
Nevo, Saggi ; Chengalur-Smith, InduShobha
Abstract :
This paper develops a conceptual model that explicates the role of synchronous communication media in enabling - directly and indirectly, via social presence - virtual software development teams to adopt and apply Agile methods. In turn, Agile methods, as well as perceived social presence, are theorized to have a positive impact on communication convergence and transactive memory. Ultimately, these outcomes are formulated as direct antecedents of virtual team performance. A pilot study of 40 Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) teams provides preliminary supporting evidence for the conceptual model.
Keywords :
groupware; public domain software; software prototyping; virtual reality; agile methods; communication convergence; direct antecedents; free-libre open source software; perceived social presence; synchronous communication media; transactive memory; virtual software development teams; Convergence; Documentation; Instant messaging; Media; Programming; Software; Virtual groups;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences (HICSS), 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kauai, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9618-1
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2011.186
