Agile Team and Working Environment: A Reflection From a Course Project Work (Published)
The main purpose of this paper is to point out a proper working environment in an agile team and to give some reflections on it from a recent course project. Regarding the working environment, it is emphasized here on agile culture in a team, behaviors of the team members, and the significant impact of these on the project team’s performance. A group of students worked in a project in an Agile Methods course in a university master program where the purpose of this agile development project was to practice agile values and principles in a team-based development. Observation and document analysis were used as data collection methods. A qualitative method was used as the primary data analysis method along with a quantitative method to some extent in this study. This paper describes some findings from the project on an agile work environment and finishes with some recommendations to build up a proper working environment in an agile team.
Keywords: Agile methods; Scrum; agile work environment; agile team; agile culture; agile practices