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Trying to Increase the Mature Use of Agile Practices by Group Development Psychology Training - An Experiment
There has been some evidence that agility is connected to the group maturity
of software development teams. This study aims at conducting group development
psychology training with student teams, participating in a project course at
university, and compare their group effectiveness score to their agility usage
over time in a longitudinal design. Seven XP student teams were measured twice
(43+40), which means 83 data points divided into two groups (an experimental
group and one control group). The results showed that the agility measurement
was not possible to increase by giving a 1.5-hour of group psychology lecture
and discussion over a two-month period. The non-significant result was probably
due to the fact that 1.5 hours of training were not enough to change the work
methods of these student teams, or, a causal relationship does not exist
between the two concepts. A third option could be that the experiential setting
of real teams, even at a university, has many more variables not taken into
account in this experiment that affect the two concepts. We therefore have no
conclusions to draw based on the expected effects. However, we believe these
concepts have to be connected since agile software development is based on
teamwork to a large extent, but there are probably many more confounding or
mediating factors