Problem reports and team maturity in agile automotive software development
Abstract
Background: Volvo Cars is pioneering an agile transformation on a large scale in the automotive industry. Social psychological aspects of automotive software development are an under-researched area in general. Few studies on team maturity or group dynamics can be found specifically in the automotive software engineering domain. Objective: This study is intended as an initial step to fill that gap by investigating the connection between issues and problem reports and team maturity. Method: We conducted a quantitative study with 84 participants from 14 teams and qualitatively validated the result with the Release Train Engineer having an overview of all the participating teams. Results: We find that the more mature a team is, the faster they seem to resolve issues as provided through external feedback, at least in the two initial team maturity stages. Conclusion: This study suggests that working on team dynamics might increase productivity in modern automotive software development departments, but this needs further investigation.
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@article{arxiv.2204.01285,
title = {Problem reports and team maturity in agile automotive software development},
author = {Lucas Gren and Martin Shepperd},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.01285},
year = {2022}
}
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5 pages