TY - GEN
T1 - Ad-hoc leadership in agile software development environments
AU - Dubinsky, Yael
AU - Hazzan, Orit
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Leadership is the ability to influence people, leading them to behave in a certain way in order to achieve the group's goals. Leadership is independent of job titles and descriptions. Usually, however, in order to lead, leaders need the power derived from their organizational positions. There are different leadership styles, like task-oriented versus people-oriented, directive versus permissive, autocrat versus democrat. In this paper, we examine the leadership concept in software development environments and focus on leadership in transition processes to agile software development. Specifically, based on our comprehensive research on agile software development, we suggest a leadership style - ad-hoc leadership - that usually emerges in such change processes. We present the characteristics, dynamic and uniqueness of this leadership style and illustrate its usefulness for the analysis of representative scenarios.
AB - Leadership is the ability to influence people, leading them to behave in a certain way in order to achieve the group's goals. Leadership is independent of job titles and descriptions. Usually, however, in order to lead, leaders need the power derived from their organizational positions. There are different leadership styles, like task-oriented versus people-oriented, directive versus permissive, autocrat versus democrat. In this paper, we examine the leadership concept in software development environments and focus on leadership in transition processes to agile software development. Specifically, based on our comprehensive research on agile software development, we suggest a leadership style - ad-hoc leadership - that usually emerges in such change processes. We present the characteristics, dynamic and uniqueness of this leadership style and illustrate its usefulness for the analysis of representative scenarios.
KW - ad-hoc leadership
KW - agile software development
KW - change leader
KW - leadership
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955829293&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1833310.1833316
DO - 10.1145/1833310.1833316
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955829293
SN - 9781605589664
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 32
EP - 38
BT - 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, CHASE 2010, in Conjunction with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010
T2 - 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, CHASE 2010, in Conjunction with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010
Y2 - 2 May 2010 through 2 May 2010
ER -