What an Agile Leader Does: The Group Dynamics Perspective

Gren, Lucas; Lindman, Magdalena

dc.contributor.author	Gren, Lucas
dc.contributor.author	Lindman, Magdalena
dc.date.accessioned	2021-12-13T02:16:45Z
dc.date.available	2021-12-13T02:16:45Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.identifier.citation	Gren L., Lindman M. (2020) What an Agile Leader Does: The Group Dynamics Perspective. In: Stray V., Hoda R., Paasivaara M., Kruchten P. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 383. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49392-9_12	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-030-49392-9
dc.identifier.uri	${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/2199
dc.description	17 p. ; PDF	en_US
dc.description.abstract	When large industrial organizations change to (or start with) an agile approach to operations, managers and some employees are supposed to be “agile leaders” often without being given a clear definition of what that comprises when building agile teams. An inductive thematic analysis was used to investigate what 15 appointed leaders actually do and perceive as challenges regarding group dynamics working with an agile approach. Team maturity, Team design, and Culture and mindset were all categories of challenges related to group dynamics that the practitioners face and manage in their work-life that are not explicitly mentioned in the more process-focused agile transformation frameworks. The results suggest that leader mitigation of these three aspects of group dynamics is essential to the success of an agile transformation.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer Nature	en_US
dc.subject	Leadership	en_US
dc.subject	Qualitative study	en_US
dc.subject	Agile development processes	en_US
dc.title	What an Agile Leader Does: The Group Dynamics Perspective	en_US
dc.type	Book chapter	en_US