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Abstract
In this study we view Software Development Methods (SDMs) through the perspective of work design. The objective is to gain understanding into the inherent potential of the two major paradigms of software development, the Plan-driven and Agile methods, to motivate team members of software development projects. The work design perspective is relevant for investigating the motivating impacts of SDMs. The increasing popularity of people focused Agile methods over process focused Plan-driven methods in the 2000s mirror the increasing popularity of non-Taylorist work designs over Taylorist work designs in the 1980s. Work design concepts in parallel disciplines such as manufacturing evolved from the Taylorist focus on specialization and time and motion studies to adopting autonomous self-managed teams and creating employee programs like quality circles. Gleaning concepts from the widely accepted Job Characteristic Model (Hackman and Qldham, 1976) for work design, and the SelfDetermination Theory (Deci and Ryan, 1985), one of the most prominent theories of motivation, provided useful insights. Together they could explain and predict the differential impacts of plandriven and Agile methods of software development on team member motivation.
在本研究中,我们从工作设计的角度来看待软件开发方法(SDMs)。目标是了解软件开发的两种主要范例的内在潜力,即计划驱动和敏捷方法,以激励软件开发项目的团队成员。工作设计视角与研究sdm的激励影响相关。2000年代,以人为中心的敏捷方法越来越受欢迎,而不是以过程为中心的计划驱动方法,这反映了20世纪80年代,非泰勒式工作设计越来越受欢迎,而不是泰勒式工作设计。平行学科的工作设计概念,如制造业,从泰勒主义者关注专业化、时间和运动研究,发展到采用自主的自我管理团队,并创建员工计划,如质量圈。从工作设计中广泛接受的工作特征模型(Hackman and Qldham, 1976)和自我决定理论(Deci and Ryan, 1985)中收集概念,这是最突出的动机理论之一,提供了有用的见解。他们一起可以解释和预测计划驱动和敏捷软件开发方法对团队成员动机的不同影响。