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Developer Productivity With and Without GitHub Copilot: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Case Study
Viktoria Stray, Elias Goldmann Brandtzæg, Viggo Tellefsen Wivestad +2
This study investigates the real-world impact of the generative AI (GenAI) tool GitHub Copilot on developer activity and perceived productivity. We conducted a mixed-methods case s…
Integrating Pair Programming as a Work Practice
Nina Haugland Andersen, Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe +4
Context: Pair programming (PP) is more relevant than ever. As modern systems grow in complexity, knowledge sharing and collaboration across teams have become essential. However, de…
Who "Controls" Where Work Shall be Done? State-of-Practice in Post-Pandemic Remote Work Regulation
Darja Smite, Nils Brede Moe, Maria Teresa Baldassarre +8
The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently altered workplace structures, making remote work a widespread practice. While many employees advocate for flexibility, many employers reconsid…
Identifying Critical Dependencies in Large-Scale Continuous Software Engineering
Anastasiia Tkalich, Eriks Klotins, Nils Brede Moe
Continuous Software Engineering (CSE) is widely adopted in the industry, integrating practices such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). Beyond technical as…
User Feedback in Continuous Software Engineering: Revealing the State-of-Practice
Anastasiia Tkalich, Eriks Klotins, Tor Sporsem +3
Context: Organizations opt for continuous delivery of incremental updates to deal with uncertainty and minimize waste. However, applying continuous engineering (CSE) practices requ…
Transforming Software Development with Generative AI: Empirical Insights on Collaboration and Workflow
Rasmus Ulfsnes, Nils Brede Moe, Viktoria Stray +1
Generative AI (GenAI) has fundamentally changed how knowledge workers, such as software developers, solve tasks and collaborate to build software products. Introducing innovative t…
What Attracts Employees to Work Onsite in Times of Increased Remote Working?
Darja Smite, Eriks Klotins, Nils Brede Moe
COVID-19 pandemic has irreversibly changed the attitude towards office presence. While previously remote workers were met with skepticism and distrust, today the same applies to co…
Understanding the Difference between Office Presence and Co-presence in Team Member Interactions
Nils Brede Moe, Simen Ulsaker, Darja Smite +2
Although the public health emergency related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has officially ended, many software developers still work partly from home. Agile t…
Pair Programming Practiced in Hybrid Work
Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe, Nina Haugland Andersen +2
Pair programming (PP) has been a widespread practice for decades and is known for facilitating knowledge exchange and improving the quality of software. Many agilists advocated the…
Half-Empty Offices in Flexible Work Arrangements: Why are Employees Not Returning?
Darja Smite, Nils Brede Moe, Anastasiia Tkalich +7
Although the pandemic times of the world-wide forced working from home seem to be in the past, many knowledge workers choose to continue working predominantly from home as a partia…
What happens to psychological safety when going remote?
Anastasiia Tkalich, Darja Smite, Nina Haugland Andersen +1
Psychological safety is a precondition for learning and success in software teams. Companies such as SavingsBank, which is discussed in this article, have developed good practices…
Coordination Strategies When Working from Anywhere: A Case Study of Two Agile Teams
Tor Sporsem, Nils Brede Moe
Effective coordination is the key to successful agile teams. They rely on frequent interactions and mutual adjustment to manage dependencies between activities, which traditionally…
Work-From-Home is Here to Stay: Call for Flexibility in Post-Pandemic Work Policies
Darja Smite, Nils Brede Moe, Jarle Hildrum +2
In early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic forced employees in tech companies worldwide to abruptly transition from working in offices to working from their homes. During two years of pr…
Making Internal Software Startups Work: How to Innovate Like a Venture Builder?
Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe, Rasmus Ulfsnes
With the increasing availability of software usage and the influence of the Lean Startup mindset, more and more companies choose to innovate through internal software startups. Suc…
Improving Productivity through Corporate Hackathons: A Multiple Case Study of Two Large-scale Agile Organizations
Nils Brede Moe, Rasmus Ulfsnes, Viktoria Stray +1
Software development companies organize hackathons to encourage innovation. Despite many benefits of hackathons, in large-scale agile organizations where many teams work together,…
Agile Information System Development Organizations Transforming to Large-Scale Collaboration
Marius Mikalsen, Nils Brede Moe, Sut I Wong +1
We report findings from a case study of a large agile information systems development (ISD) organization`s sudden transformation to distributed, digital work in the context of the…
Using Guilds to Foster Internal Startups in Large Organizations: A case study
Tor Sporsem, Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe +2
Software product innovation in large organizations is fundamentally chal-lenging because of restrained freedom and flexibility to conduct experi-ments. As a response, large agile c…
Employee-Driven Innovation to Fuel Internal Software Startups: Preliminary Findings
Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe, Tor Sporsem
To keep up with the pace of innovation, established companies are increasingly relying on internal software startups. However, succeeding with such startups is a challenging task b…
Innovation in Large-scale agile -- Benefits and Challenges of Hackathons when Hacking from Home
Rasmus Ulfsnes, Viktoria Stray, Nils Brede Moe +1
Hackathons are events in which diverse teams work together to explore, and develop solutions, software or even ideas. Hackathons have been recognized not only as public events for…
From Collaboration to Solitude and Back: Remote Pair Programming during COVID-19
Darja Smite, Marius Mikalsen, Nils B. Moe +2
Along with the increasing popularity of agile software development, software work has become much more social than ever. Contemporary software teams rely on a variety of collaborat…
Understanding Barriers to Internal Startups in Large Organizations: Evidence from a Globally Distributed Company
Tor Sporsem, Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe +1
Large global companies need to speed up their innovation activities to increase competitive advantage. However, such companies' organizational structures impede their ability to ca…
An Empirical Investigation of Pull Requests in Partially Distributed BizDevOps Teams
V. Stray, N. B. Moe, M. Mikalsen +1
In globally distributed projects, virtual teams are often partially dispersed. One common setup occurs when several members from one company work with a large outsourcing vendor ba…
From Forced Working-From-Home to Working-From-Anywhere: Two Revolutions in Telework
Darja Smite, Nils Brede Moe, Eriks Klotins +1
The COVID-19 outbreak has admittedly caused a major disruption worldwide. The interruptions to production, transportation, and mobility have clearly had a significant impact on the…
The Agile Coach Role: Coaching for Agile Performance Impact
Viktoria Stray, Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe
It is increasingly common to introduce agile coaches to help gain speed and advantage in agile companies. Following the success of Spotify, the role of the agile coach has branched…