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The Covid 19 Pandemic and its Effects on Agile Software Development

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Michael Neumann,

Yevgen Bogdanov,

Senol SagerAuthors Info & Claims

ICSIM '22: Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management

Pages 51 - 60

https://doi.org/10.1145/3520084.3520093

Published: 18 April 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Companies worldwide have enabled their employees to work remotely as a consequence of the Covid 19 pandemic. Software development is a human-centered discipline and thrives on teamwork. Agile methods are focusing on several social aspects of software development. Software development teams in Germany were mainly co-located before the pandemic. This paper aims to validate the findings of existing studies by expanding on an existing multiple-case study. Therefore, we collected data by conducting semi-structured interviews, observing agile practices, and viewing project documents in three cases. Based on the results, we can confirm the following findings: 1) The teams rapidly adapted the agile practices and roles, 2) communication is more objective within the teams, 3) decreased social exchange between team members, 4) the expectation of a combined approach of remote and onsite work after the pandemic, 5) stable or increased (perceived) performance and 6) stable or increased well-being of team members.

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