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    Deprojectification of agile: The new orthodoxy of long-term product teams.


    Nesheim, Torstein (2023) Deprojectification of agile: The new orthodoxy of long-term product teams. Irish Journal of Management, 42 (2): 6. pp. 160-173. ISSN 1649-248X

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    Abstract

    Agile management thinking has influenced organisations in several ways, but the focus of this paper is on the deprojectification of agile software development. The new agile orthodoxy has been promoted by popular books, in blogs and by Spotify and other firms: agile teams should be aligned to products or domains (not projects); cover development, maintenance and operations (to reduce handover problems); and have a long-term character (to build trust, identity and domain knowledge). We first describe and contextualise the new agile orthodoxy and then, based on an empirical study of two different "agile cases," we describe and analyse how employees and middle managers perceived the rationale behind the change to long-term teams, how they understood teams as the basic unit of the structure, their perceptions of the resource and disciplinary dimensions of the organisation and the decline of projects and project managers.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Agile; Deprojectification; Teams; Organisation structure; Innovation;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
    Item ID: 20511
    Identification Number: 10.2478/ijm-2023-0010
    Depositing User: IAM School of Business
    Date Deposited: 25 Aug 2025 09:38
    Journal or Publication Title: Irish Journal of Management
    Publisher: Irish Academy of Management
    Refereed: Yes
    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20511
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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