Self-Organizing is not Self-Managing: A Case Study about Governance Challenges in an Agile IT Unit and its Scrum Projects

dc.contributor.author Simard, Magali
dc.contributor.author Lapalme, James
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-03T00:50:22Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-03T00:50:22Z
dc.date.issued 2019-01-08
dc.description.abstract This paper presents a case study on the internal governance of Scrum projects and their relationships with their organization’s governance within a rich research setting: an IT agile unit and its mature Scrum project teams. This study reveals ambiguities about the meaning of self-organizing versus self-managing, and the associated challenges for governance processes, especially those related to HR governance, which can lead to unresolved issues and conflicts. Interestingly, these ambiguities are also found in the current IS literature, which rarely differentiates self-organizing from self-managing in agile projects. Thus, this paper enhances our knowledge of governance processes and associated challenges, particularly for mature Scrum project teams, which are still little covered in the IS literature.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2019.784
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-2-6
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/60088
dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Social-Technical Issues in Organizational Information Technologies
dc.subject Organizational Systems and Technology
dc.subject Agile projects, Agile Scrum, IT project, Governance, Project governance, Self-organizing
dc.title Self-Organizing is not Self-Managing: A Case Study about Governance Challenges in an Agile IT Unit and its Scrum Projects
dc.type Conference Paper
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