Team Performance in Software Development: Research Results versus Agile Principles

Abstract

This article reviews scientific studies of factors influencing colocated development teams' performance and proposes five factors that strongly affect performance. In the process, it compares these propositions with the Agile Manifesto's development principles. The Web extra at https://extras.computer.org/extra/mso2016040106s1.pdf details the sources and research methods the authors employed.