Agile Software Development Teams

This book explores how agile development practices, in particular pair programming, code review and automated testing, help software development teams to perform better. Agile software engineering has become the standard software development paradigm over

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Christoph Schmidt

Agile Software Development Teams The Impact of Agile Development on Team Performance

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Christoph Schmidt

Agile Software Development Teams The Impact of Agile Development on Team Performance

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Christoph Schmidt MRunchen, Germany

This book is based on a doctoral thesis successfully defended at the Business School of the University of Mannheim. ISSN 2196-8705 Progress in IS ISBN 978-3-319-26055-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26057-0

ISSN 2196-8713 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-26057-0 (eBook)

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Acknowledgments

Conducting research and writing my dissertation have been an endeavor. This project would not have been possible without numerous mentors, colleagues, friends, and my family who have supported, encouraged, and helped me in many ways. I would like to express my great appreciation and thanks for their contribution and support. This dissertation is the product of a fruitful cooperation between the research group of Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl at the Institute of Enterprise Systems, University of Mannheim, Germany, and SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany. First and foremost, I would like to thank my academic supervisor Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl. He has been a mentor and role model giving me the extraordinary opportunity and research environment for this thesis. I thoroughly thank him for the trust and confidence allowing me to develop my research ideas while guiding and supporting me whenever needed. Moreover, he encouraged me to present my work at international conferences and to develop my work during two research stays abroad. At the same time, I d