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11. Investigating the Impact of Agile Control Mechanisms on Learning in Scrum Teams

Authors : Maria Carmela Annosi, Antonella Martini, Mats Magnusson

Published in: Learning and Innovation in Hybrid Organizations

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter aims to explore Management Control Systems (MCS) resulting from the implementation of agile development methods, relying on an established MCS taxonomy. An abductive approach was adopted, considering the shortage of research evaluating the post-adoption effects of agile methods. Four organizations from an international telecommunication firm that implemented agile methods were involved, and 44 individual semi-structured interviews were performed. In addition, 121 free comments from a global survey to the same organizations were used as secondary data. The paper indicates how Scrum, a widespread agile method, implicitly brings multiple enforcing levers of control to a team’s self-regulatory learning processes.

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Title: Investigating the Impact of Agile Control Mechanisms on Learning in Scrum Teams
Authors: Maria Carmela Annosi
Antonella Martini
Mats Magnusson
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Learning and Innovation in Hybrid Organizations
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62466-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-62467-9

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62467-9_11