Process improvement and agile methods
A) Hansen, B., Rose, J., and Tjørnehøj, G., "Prescription, description, reflection: the shape of the software process improvement field," International Journal of Information Management, vol. 24, pp. 457 - 472, 2004.
B) Dingsøyr, T., Nerur, S., Balijepally, V., and Moe, N. B., "A Decade of Agile Methodologies: Towards Explaining Agile Software Development," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 85, pp. 1213-1221, 2012.
C) Baham, C. and Hirschheim, R., "Issues, challenges, and a proposed theoretical core of agile software development research," Information Systems Journal, vol. n/a, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12336
Teamwork, knowledge management and learning
A) Strode, D., Dingsøyr, T., and Lindsjørn, Y., "A Teamwork Effectiveness Model for Agile Software Development," Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 27, p. 50, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-021-10115-0
B) Bjørnson, F. O. and Dingsøyr, T., "Knowledge Management in Software Engineering: A Systematic Review of Studied Concepts and Research Methods Used," Information and Software Technology, vol. 50, pp. 1055-1168, 2008.
C) Babb, J., Hoda, R., and Norbjerg, J., "Embedding reflection and learning into agile software development," IEEE Software, vol. 31, pp. 51-57, 2014.
In addition: teaching case1 to read during seminar.
Large-scale agile development
A) Dingsøyr, T., Falessi, D., and Power, K., "Agile Development at Scale: The Next Frontier," IEEE Software, vol. 36, pp. 30-38, 2019.
B) Edison, H., Wang, X., and K., C., "Comparing Methods for Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, pp. 1-1, 2021.
C) Dingsøyr, T., Bjørnson, F. O., Schrof, J., and Sporsem, T., "A longitudinal explanatory case study of coordination in a very large development programme: the impact of transitioning from a first- to a second-generation large-scale agile development method," Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 28, p. 49, 2022/11/08 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-022-10230-6
In addition: teaching case2 to read during seminar.
Agile transformation
A) Dikert, K., Paasivaara, M., and Lassenius, C., "Challenges and success factors for large-scale agile transformations: A systematic literature review," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 119, pp. 87-108, 2016/09/01/ 2016.
B) Paasivaara, M., Behm, B., Lassenius, C., and Hallikainen, M., "Large-scale agile transformation at Ericsson: a case study," Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 23, pp. 2550-2596, 2018/10/01 2018.
C) Fuchs, C. and Hess, T., "Becoming agile in the digital transformation: the process of a large-scale agile transformation," in Thirty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, USA, 2018, p. 17.
Extra material (not curriculum):
Podcast on case study research method with studies of large-scale agile development programmes as example: https://isdigest.buzzsprout.com/1529204/12318749-the-case-study-guest-torgeir-dingsoyr