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Studying Attitudes and Social Norms in Agile Software Development
The purpose of this paper is to review research on attitudes and social norms
and connect it to the agile software development context. Furthermore, I
propose additional theories from social psychology (mainly the theory of
planned behavior and using the degree of internalization of social norms) that
would most certainly be useful for further sense-making of human
factors-related research on agile teams.Comment: Accepted at XP2018 Poster Track Sessio
Learning more from crossing levels: Investigating agility at three levels of the organization
Scholars have tried to explain how organizations can build agile teams by
only looking at one level of analysis. We argue in this short paper that
lessons can be learned from organizational science results explaining variance
on three different abstraction levels of organizations. We suggest agility
needs to be explained from organizational (macro), the team (meso), and
individual (micro) levels to provide useful and actionable guidelines to
practitioners. We are currently designing such studies and hope that they will
eventually result in validated measurements that can be used to prevent
companies from investing in the wrong areas when trying to move towards more
agility
Standards of Validity and the Validity of Standards in Behavioral Software Engineering Research: The Perspective of Psychological Test Theory
Background. There are some publications in software engineering research that
aim at guiding researchers in assessing validity threats to their studies.
Still, many researchers fail to address many aspects of validity that are
essential to quantitative research on human factors. Goal. This paper has the
goal of triggering a change of mindset in what types of studies are the most
valuable to the behavioral software engineering field, and also provide more
details of what construct validity is. Method. The approach is based on
psychological test theory and draws upon methods used in psychology in relation
to construct validity. Results. In this paper, I suggest a different approach
to validity threats than what is commonplace in behavioral software engineering
research. Conclusions. While this paper focuses on behavioral software
engineering, I believe other types of software engineering research might also
benefit from an increased focus on construct validity.Comment: ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
and Measurement (ESEM), Oulu, Finland, October 11-12, 2018. 4 page
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