# Coordination Strategies When Working from Anywhere: A Case Study of Two Agile Teams

- **År:** 2022
- **Publiseringssted:** Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 23rd International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 13–17, 2022, Proceedings
- **Forfattere:** Tor Thorsrud Sporsem, Nils Brede Moe
- **DOI:** https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08169-9_4
- **Open access:** https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08169-9_4
- **Cristin:** https://app.cristin.no/results/show.jsf?id=2036772

## Knowit-forskere
- [Nils Brede Moe](https://research.lab.knowit.no/people/#nils-brede-moe) ([markdown](https://research.lab.knowit.no/people/nils-brede-moe.md))
- [Tor Thorsrud Sporsem](https://research.lab.knowit.no/people/#tor-thorsrud-sporsem) ([markdown](https://research.lab.knowit.no/people/tor-thorsrud-sporsem.md))

## Abstract

Effective coordination is the key to successful agile teams. They rely on frequent interactions and mutual adjustment to manage dependencies between activities, which traditionally has been solved by co-locating the team. As the world is adjusting to post-covid work-life, companies are moving towards a work-from-anywhere approach where workers can choose to what degree they want to work from home or office. However, little is known about coordination in such a context. We report findings on developers’ emerging strategies when working-from-anywhere, from an exploratory case study in Norway, including eight interviews. Our study shows that new strategies for mutual adjustment emerged as teams experimented with different tools and approaches: developers chose tasks according to location, tasks with vague requirements are performed collocated while individual tasks requiring focus are best performed at home; large meetings are virtual, preserving co-located time for collaborative tasks; using virtual rooms to maintain unscheduled meetings as they communicate mental presence to teammates, lowering the threshold for intra-team unscheduled talks. The strategies can help organizations create a productive and effective environment for developers.

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