@inproceedings{NeumannBogdanovSager2022,
  author    = {Michael Neumann and Yevgen Bogdanov and Senol Sager},
  title     = {The Covid 19 Pandemic and its Effects on Agile Software Development},
  series = {ICSIM 2022 : The 5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Information Management (ICSIM)},
  volume    = {2022},
  publisher = {ACM},
  isbn      = {978-1-4503-9551-9},
  doi       = {10.25968/opus-2262},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-22622},
  pages     = {51 -- 60},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Companies worldwide have enabled their employees to work remotely as a consequence of the Covid 19 pandemic. Software development is a human-centered discipline and thrives on teamwork. Agile methods are focusing on several social aspects of software development. Software development teams in Germany were mainly co-located before the pandemic. This paper aims to validate the findings of existing studies by expanding on an existing multiple-case study. Therefore, we collected data by conducting semi-structured interviews, observing agile practices, and viewing project documents in three cases. Based on the results, we can confirm the following findings: 1) The teams rapidly adapted the agile practices and roles, 2) communication is more objective within the teams, 3) decreased social exchange between team members, 4) the expectation of a combined approach of remote and onsite work after the pandemic, 5) stable or increased (perceived) performance and 6) stable or increased well-being of team members.},
  language  = {en}
}