Understanding leadership in agile software development teams : who and how?

Weichbrodt, Johann; Kropp, Martin; Biddle, Robert; Gregory, Peggy; Anslow, Craig; Bühler, Ursina Maria; Mateescu, Magdalena; Meier, Andreas

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08169-9_7

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26672

Publication type:	Conference paper
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Understanding leadership in agile software development teams : who and how?
Authors:	Weichbrodt, Johann Kropp, Martin Biddle, Robert Gregory, Peggy Anslow, Craig Bühler, Ursina Maria Mateescu, Magdalena Meier, Andreas
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-031-08169-9_7 10.21256/zhaw-26672
Proceedings:	Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
Editors of the parent work:	Stray, Viktoria Stol, Klaas-Jan Paasivaara, Maria Kruchten, Philippe
Page(s):	99
Pages to:	113
Conference details:	23rd International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP), Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-17 June 2022
Issue Date:	Jun-2022
Series:	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Series volume:	445
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Cham
ISBN:	978-3-031-08168-2 978-3-031-08169-9
Language:	English
Subjects:	Leadership; Agile software development; Shared leadership; Transactional leadership; Transformational leadership
Subject (DDC):	658.4: Executive Management
Abstract:	The principles in the Agile Manifesto, the Scrum Guide and most other approaches to agile software development emphasize self-organizing teams, but rarely address issues of leadership. In this paper we report on a study of the nature of different aspects of leadership in agile teams. We used an established model of leadership, distinguishing transactional and transformational styles, and asked IT professionals a set of questions about the leadership they experience, both from direct supervisors (hierarchical leadership) and from the team itself (shared leadership). We determined correlation measures of these four types of leadership with the extent of agility in the whole organization. Our results show that agility is indeed related to the transformational style, but that the transactional style also plays a part, especially as shared leadership. Furthermore, even in highly agile software development, leadership by direct supervisors still plays an important role. We propose that, as software development becomes more agile, the transactional aspects of leadership may shift away from the leadership dyad between supervisor and employee into the agile team, while transformational leadership is important for both the team and supervisors. We discuss our results in light of applications for both research and practice.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/26672
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)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Engineering

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Weichbrodt, J., Kropp, M., Biddle, R., Gregory, P., Anslow, C., Bühler, U. M., Mateescu, M., & Meier, A. (2022). Understanding leadership in agile software development teams : who and how? [Conference paper]. In V. Stray, K.-J. Stol, M. Paasivaara, & P. Kruchten (Eds.), Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (pp. 99–113). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08169-9_7

Weichbrodt, J. et al. (2022) ‘Understanding leadership in agile software development teams : who and how?’, in V. Stray et al. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. Cham: Springer, pp. 99–113. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08169-9_7.

J. Weichbrodt et al., “Understanding leadership in agile software development teams : who and how?,” in Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, Jun. 2022, pp. 99–113. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-08169-9_7.

WEICHBRODT, Johann, Martin KROPP, Robert BIDDLE, Peggy GREGORY, Craig ANSLOW, Ursina Maria BÜHLER, Magdalena MATEESCU und Andreas MEIER, 2022. Understanding leadership in agile software development teams : who and how? In: Viktoria STRAY, Klaas-Jan STOL, Maria PAASIVAARA und Philippe KRUCHTEN (Hrsg.), Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. Conference paper. Cham: Springer. Juni 2022. S. 99–113. ISBN 978-3-031-08168-2

Weichbrodt, Johann, Martin Kropp, Robert Biddle, Peggy Gregory, Craig Anslow, Ursina Maria Bühler, Magdalena Mateescu, and Andreas Meier. 2022. “Understanding Leadership in Agile Software Development Teams : Who and How?” Conference paper. In Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, edited by Viktoria Stray, Klaas-Jan Stol, Maria Paasivaara, and Philippe Kruchten, 99–113. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08169-9_7.

Weichbrodt, Johann, et al. “Understanding Leadership in Agile Software Development Teams : Who and How?” Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, edited by Viktoria Stray et al., Springer, 2022, pp. 99–113, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08169-9_7.