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Giving project teams more autonomy boosts productivity and customer satisfaction:
The research suggests that organizations that take a hands-off approach to the structure and governance of project teams create an environment of creative flexibility. This built-in flexibility makes teams more responsive to needed changes in the software they're building, boosting performance and customer satisfaction.
"By giving greater autonomy to your teams, you allow them to exercise greater judgment about what would actually work based on their project requirements," said Indranil Bardhan, a professor of information, risk and operations management at UT Austin's McCombs School of Business and co-author of the study. "We show there's no one right way of achieving superior project performance, no one-size-fits-all."
[...] Bardhan and co-author Narayan Ramasubbu of the University of Pittsburgh tested the performance of both agile and traditional project teams over 50 months in a real-world policy experiment at a major software company based in India. The company had 125,000 software developers around the world working on projects that adhered to an ideal operations profile closely monitored through a central unit.
Senior company directors wanted to learn whether greater autonomy for software development teams would hurt or help performance. For the study, they implemented a policy change granting greater autonomy to certain teams and agreeing to provide data on key performance measures -- for both autonomous and nonautonomous teams -- before and after the policy change.
Journal Reference:
Narayan Ramasubbu and Indranil R. Bardhan. Giving project teams more autonomy boosts productivity and customer satisfaction, MIS Quarterly, 2021 [abstract]
(Score: 4, Touché) by janrinok on Friday January 21 2022, @06:55PM (4 children)
I was with you until your last sentence - then you dragged it down into the mud again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 21 2022, @07:42PM (3 children)
Well it's actually kind of ironic. The ones bringing AR-15s to town hall meetings to protect Freedom(tm) and voting against their own interests are the ones being manipulated.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday January 21 2022, @09:17PM (1 child)
Which has absolutely nothing at all to do with the topic of this discussion - "Giving Project Teams More Autonomy Boosts Productivity and Customer Satisfaction".
Please leave your politics for those stories that are discussing such things, mostly in the journals
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 22 2022, @06:17PM
"Some people yearn with every molecule of their body to be kept and run as a prized slave. Autonomy, freedom frighten them. They only wish to submit and obey.
If you want to know who these people are, just look around for masks."
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday January 21 2022, @09:29PM
Easy targets are the ones most often sought out, and hit.
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