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by Steven E. Newton.
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A brief except from the work I submitted to the Experience
Reports track for Agile 2006
with Jason P. Stevens
Over the course of two years of a development project, we introduced
team members to various agile practices. We observed which were adopted
and which were rejected by team members and looked at how individual
personality factors correlated with the kinds of responses to the
practices.
People in our project ended up lumped into one of the following four areas:
Adopted
Picked up the practice and used it with reasonable correctness.
Adopted but Distorted
Picked up on the term and the form but missed the intent and did something not agile.
Actively Rejected
Did not adopt the practice and argued against its use.
Passively Rejected.
Kept doing things differently form agile practices but never sought to justify or debate.
The project observed the reactions of individual team members to
agile practices and related those reaction to personality types such as
the categories suggested by the Myers-Briggs Type Index. For people who
are introducing agile practices we think we might have some things to
look for and ways to adapt to the varying responses usually seen among
individuals in a team new to agile.
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