TY - GEN
T1 - Sprinting Out of Stuckness
T2 - Overcoming Moments of Stuckness to Support the Creativity Flow in Agile Team Settings
AU - Shah, Ashni
AU - Huidobro Pereda, Alfonso
AU - Guerreiro Goncalves, Milene
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Multidisciplinary agile teams working in fast paced, delivery-oriented sprint cycles of two weeks can experience moments of stuckness. Typically, these moments can be characterised by the inability to continue, which can be quite detrimental in agile settings, where time is pressured. This paper aims to explore these moments of stuckness, to understand when and why they occur and to understand the different strategies Scrum teams use to overcome them, both on a personal as well as team level. A combination of interviews and observations were conducted with six Scrum team members and two experts to understand their process and experiences while working in an agile set up. We have identified five strategies, which strongly rely on agile values of collaboration, communication, and creativity. These are: looking for expert guidance, open communication, creating spike stories, visual communication and incubation. The findings from this study provide both practice and academia with a deeper understanding into how can creativity be supported in agile settings.
AB - Multidisciplinary agile teams working in fast paced, delivery-oriented sprint cycles of two weeks can experience moments of stuckness. Typically, these moments can be characterised by the inability to continue, which can be quite detrimental in agile settings, where time is pressured. This paper aims to explore these moments of stuckness, to understand when and why they occur and to understand the different strategies Scrum teams use to overcome them, both on a personal as well as team level. A combination of interviews and observations were conducted with six Scrum team members and two experts to understand their process and experiences while working in an agile set up. We have identified five strategies, which strongly rely on agile values of collaboration, communication, and creativity. These are: looking for expert guidance, open communication, creating spike stories, visual communication and incubation. The findings from this study provide both practice and academia with a deeper understanding into how can creativity be supported in agile settings.
KW - Agile
KW - Creativity
KW - Design process
KW - Scrum
KW - Teamwork
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079775419&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/dsi.2019.241
DO - 10.1017/dsi.2019.241
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 2019-August
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED
SP - 2347
EP - 2356
BT - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 19
A2 - Badke Schaub, Petra
A2 - Kleinsmann, Maaike
CY - Delft
ER -