Autonomous agile teams: Challenges and future directions for research

TL;DR

This paper discusses the challenges faced by autonomous agile teams and outlines future research directions to improve their effectiveness and implementation in software development.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of current challenges and identifies key research questions for advancing autonomous team practices in agile methodologies.

Findings

Identifies main challenges in implementing autonomous teams

Highlights gaps in current research on team autonomy

Suggests future research directions for agile team effectiveness

Abstract

According to the principles articulated in the agile manifesto, motivated and empowered software developers relying on technical excellence and simple designs, create business value by delivering working software to users at regular short intervals. These principles have spawned many practices. At the core of these practices is the idea of autonomous, self-managing, or self-organizing teams whose members work at a pace that sustains their creativity and productivity. This article summarizes the main challenges faced when implementing autonomous teams and the topics and research questions that future research should address.