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Collocation Impact on Team Effectiveness
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The collocation of software development teams is common, specially in agile software development environments. However little is known about the impact of collocation on the team’s effectiveness. This paper explores the impact of collocating agile software development teams on a number of team effectiveness factors. The study focused on South African software development teams and gathered data through the use of questionnaires and interviews.
The key finding was that collocation has a positive impact on a number of team effectiveness factors which can be categorised under team composition, team support, team management and structure and team communication. Some of the negative impact collocation had on team effectiveness relate to the fact that team members perceived that less emphasis was placed on roles, that morale of the group was influenced by individuals, and that collocation was invasive, reduced level of privacy and increased frequency of interruptions. Overall through it is proposed that companies should consider collocating their agile software development teams, as collocation might leverage overall team effectiveness.
South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
Title: Collocation Impact on Team Effectiveness
Description:
The collocation of software development teams is common, specially in agile software development environments.
However little is known about the impact of collocation on the team’s effectiveness.
This paper explores the impact of collocating agile software development teams on a number of team effectiveness factors.
The study focused on South African software development teams and gathered data through the use of questionnaires and interviews.
The key finding was that collocation has a positive impact on a number of team effectiveness factors which can be categorised under team composition, team support, team management and structure and team communication.
Some of the negative impact collocation had on team effectiveness relate to the fact that team members perceived that less emphasis was placed on roles, that morale of the group was influenced by individuals, and that collocation was invasive, reduced level of privacy and increased frequency of interruptions.
Overall through it is proposed that companies should consider collocating their agile software development teams, as collocation might leverage overall team effectiveness.
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