Autonomous agile teams: Challenges and future directions for research

According to the principles articulated in the agile manifesto, motivated and empowered software developers relying on technical excellence and simple designs, create business value by delivering working software to users at regular short intervals. These principles have spawned many practices. At the core of these practices is the idea of autonomous, self-managing, or self-organizing teams whose members work at a pace that sustains their creativity and productivity. This article summarizes the main challenges faced when implementing autonomous teams and the topics and research questions that future research should address

How to outsource agile projects effectively

Overview: Faced with a rapidly changing business environment, organizations are increasingly turning to Agile project management to deliver innovation programs. Deployment of Agile poses specific challenges, often because the required skills, measures, and management behaviors differ greatly than those of traditional project management. When faced with a need to outsource Agile project delivery to a third party, organizations often apply contractual approaches developed for traditional “waterfall” projects, which prove unsuitable. This study investigated the perspective of client-side advisors in Agile projects when delivery is outsourced to a third party. Client-side sourcing advisors are an important component of the Agile delivery ecosystem because clients often rely on advisors’ experience when scoping out and procuring digital transformation projects