Stress in agile software development : practices and outcomes

Meier, Andreas; Kropp, Martin; Anslow, Craig; Biddle, Robert

doi:10.21256/zhaw-4004

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4004

Publication type:	Conference paper
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Stress in agile software development : practices and outcomes
Authors:	Meier, Andreas Kropp, Martin Anslow, Craig Biddle, Robert
DOI:	10.21256/zhaw-4004 10.1007/978-3-319-91602-6_18
Proceedings:	XP 2018: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
Page(s):	259
Pages to:	266
Conference details:	19th International Conference on Agile Software Development - XP 2018, Porto, Portugal, 21-25 May 2018
Issue Date:	2018
Series:	Lecture notes in business information processing
Series volume:	314
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Cham
ISBN:	978-3-319-91601-9 978-3-319-91602-6
ISSN:	1865-1348 1865-1356
Language:	English
Subjects:	Agile; Software development; Stress
Subject (DDC):	005: Computer programming, programs and data
Abstract:	Stress is an important workplace issue, affecting both the health of individuals, and the health of organizations. Early advocacy for Agile Software Development suggested it might help avoid stress, with practices that emphasize a sustainable pace, and self-organizing teams. Our analysis of a 2014 survey, however, suggested that stress might still be commonplace in Agile teams, especially for those with less experience. We also noticed that newcomers to Agile emphasized technical, rather than collaborative, practices, and speculated this might explain the stress. We explored this in our analysis of a follow-up survey conducted in 2016, and report our findings in this paper. We show that there are a variety of factors involved, and that avoiding stress is associated with both collaborative and technical practices, and a range of outcomes.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/11452
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
Departement:	School of Engineering
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Computer Science (InIT)
Published as part of the ZHAW project:	Swiss Agile Study 2016
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Engineering

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Meier, A., Kropp, M., Anslow, C., & Biddle, R. (2018). Stress in agile software development : practices and outcomes [Conference paper]. XP 2018: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 259–266. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4004

Meier, A. et al. (2018) ‘Stress in agile software development : practices and outcomes’, in XP 2018: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. Cham: Springer, pp. 259–266. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4004.

A. Meier, M. Kropp, C. Anslow, and R. Biddle, “Stress in agile software development : practices and outcomes,” in XP 2018: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 2018, pp. 259–266. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4004.

MEIER, Andreas, Martin KROPP, Craig ANSLOW und Robert BIDDLE, 2018. Stress in agile software development : practices and outcomes. In: XP 2018: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. Conference paper. Cham: Springer. 2018. S. 259–266. ISBN 978-3-319-91601-9

Meier, Andreas, Martin Kropp, Craig Anslow, and Robert Biddle. 2018. “Stress in Agile Software Development : Practices and Outcomes.” Conference paper. In XP 2018: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, 259–66. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4004.

Meier, Andreas, et al. “Stress in Agile Software Development : Practices and Outcomes.” XP 2018: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, Springer, 2018, pp. 259–66, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4004.