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THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF AGILE RETROSPECTIVES ON THE COLLABORATION OF DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT TEAMS – A PRACTICAL APPROACH ON THE EXAMPLE OF BOSCH ENGINEERING GMBH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Katharina Duehr ,
Pauline Efremov ,
Jonas Heimicke ,
Emilie Maria Teitz ,
Ferdinand Ort ,
Marion Weissenberger-Eibl  and
Albert Albers
Katharina Duehr*
Affiliation:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT);
Pauline Efremov
Affiliation:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT);
Jonas Heimicke
Affiliation:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT);
Emilie Maria Teitz
Affiliation:
Bosch Engineering GmbH
Ferdinand Ort
Affiliation:
Bosch Engineering GmbH
Marion Weissenberger-Eibl
Affiliation:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT);
Albert Albers
Affiliation:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT);
*
Duehr, Katharina, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) IPEK Institute of Product Engineering Germany, katharina.duehr@kit.edu

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To counteract competitive pressure, increasing customer requirements and growing product complexity successful distributed collaboration in product development is vital. Companies have to face new challenges, such as efficiency losses in communication. To overcome these challenges agile working practices, such as agile retrospectives, could be beneficial. The objective of this scientific work is to evaluate the benefit of agile working practices on the example of agile retrospectives, for the improvement of collaboration in distributed development teams. Based on literature analysis, qualitative and quantitative expert interviews following the DRM by Blessing and Chakrabarti, this scientific work shows that agile working practices have a high potential to improve distributed collaboration. To address this potential, several virtual agile retrospectives are developed and conducted within a distributed team at Bosch Engineering GmbH. The evaluation of this approach results in a high potential of agile retrospectives indicating an improvement tendency. Especially iteratively implemented virtual agile retrospectives have a positive impact on successful distributed collaboration.

Keywords

Collaborative designNew product developmentTeamworkagile working practicesdistributed collaboration
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 1: ICED21 , August 2021 , pp. 3071 - 3080
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