Team Maturity in Agile Software Development: The Impact on Productivity

A main goal in Agile Software Development (ASD) is the productivity improvement: Organizations want to increase the amount of developed software and reduce the software development costs. Nevertheless, there are many factors impacting productivity in ASD. After conducting a Systematic Mapping Study, it was noted that many of the factors affecting productivity in ASD are related to team aspects. Social science states that mature teams can reach high productivity levels, but in Software Engineering there is a lack of research on that topic. Due to the above, a study was designed to determine the impact of team maturity on productivity in ASD. This work describes the research proposal.

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