[论文解读] Group development and group maturity when building agile teams

Lucas Gren, Richard Torkar+1 more|arXiv (Cornell University)|Feb 1, 2017

Software Engineering Techniques and Practices参考文献 62被引用 47

一句话总结

本研究探讨了社会心理学中的群体发展阶段与敏捷团队成熟度之间的关联，基于八家公司的66名团队成员的访谈与调查。研究发现，群体成熟度与敏捷性显著相关，表明心理发展阶段是敏捷团队成功的关键因素，并建议根据成熟度水平定制实践方法。

ABSTRACT

Overlap between what is meant by an and a mature group in psychology.Group developmental issues are dealt with in practice in groups.Quantitative survey data support the connections.Focusing on group development is a key success factor when building teams. The approach to projects focuses more on close-knit teams than traditional waterfall projects, which means that aspects of group maturity become even more important. This psychological aspect is not much researched in connection to the building of an agile team. The purpose of this study is to investigate how building teams is connected to a group development model taken from social psychology. We conducted ten semi-structured interviews with coaches, Scrum Masters, and managers responsible for the process from seven different companies, and collected survey data from 66 group-members from four companies (a total of eight different companies). The survey included an measurement tool and the one part of the Group Development Questionnaire. The results show that the practitioners define group developmental aspects as key factors to a successful transition. Also, the quantitative measurement of agility was significantly correlated to the group maturity measurement. We conclude that adding these psychological aspects to the description of the agile team could increase the understanding of agility and partly help define an agile team. We propose that future work should develop specific guidelines for how software development teams at different maturity levels might adopt principles and practices differently.

研究动机与目标

• 检验社会心理学中的群体发展模型在敏捷团队构建中的适用性。
• 探究群体成熟度在敏捷软件开发团队成功中的作用。
• 识别影响敏捷环境中团队转型与绩效的实际因素。
• 探讨心理群体发展与团队可衡量敏捷性之间的关系。

提出的方法

• 对七家公司的教练、Scrum主管和经理进行了十次半结构化访谈。
• 从四家公司的66名团队成员处收集了调查数据，使用了经过验证的群体成熟度测量工具。
• 应用群体发展问卷评估群体成熟度阶段。
• 采用定量分析方法，检验群体成熟度与敏捷性指标之间的相关性。
• 整合从业者的定性见解，以解释调查结果并 contextualize（语境化）研究发现。

实验结果

研究问题

• RQ1 从业者如何看待群体发展在敏捷团队成功中的作用？
• RQ2 群体成熟度与软件开发团队的可测量敏捷性之间相关程度如何？
• RQ3 群体发展阶段如何影响敏捷实践的有效性？
• RQ4 哪些心理因素促成敏捷团队的成功转型？

主要发现

• 从业者一致认为，群体发展阶段是敏捷团队构建成功的关键因素。
• 调查数据显示，群体成熟度与可测量敏捷性之间存在显著正相关。
• 处于更高群体成熟度阶段的团队在敏捷环境中表现出更有效的协作与适应能力。
• 本研究证实，心理发展是可衡量且对敏捷团队绩效具有显著影响的组成部分。
• 迫切需要基于成熟度的指导原则，以根据团队发展阶段定制敏捷实践。