The importance of effective decision making in organisations has been well documented. Groups are often
formed in order to collaborate skills and information and assist with decision-making. Despite the many benefits
associated with groupwork, groups are also subjected to process losses such as groupthink, which in turn have a
significant impact on group decision-making. Such process losses may be even more prevalent in agile software
development dominated by highly cohesive, self-managing teams. The purpose of this study is to investigate
group decision-making in agile software development and assess how agile practices can reduce the occurrence
of group process losses
