This study draws on the literature on psychological empowerment to conceptualize agile practices as a source of intrinsic motivation that enables the agile teams to deliver innovative outcomes. Then, drawing on the resource based view of innovative projects, the innovative behaviour of agile teams is cast as a project capability that affects project performance. To test this original conceptualization, data was collected to find support for the hypothesized relationships between agile practices, psychological empowerment, innovative behaviour and project performance. The statistical results showed that the agile practices of team autonomy and agile communication contributed to psychological empowerment that led to the innovative behaviour of agile teams. The innovative behaviour also affected project performance. The empirical validation of agile practices as a source of empowerment and motivation for agile teams is a new finding in the literature which has strong implications for both the theory and practice.

这项研究借鉴了关于心理授权的文献，将敏捷实践概念化为内在动机的源泉，使内在动机能够使敏捷团队实现创新成果。然后，利用基于资源的创新项目视图，将敏捷团队的创新行为视为影响项目绩效的项目能力。为了测试这种原始的概念，收集了数据以寻找对敏捷实践，心理授权，创新行为和项目绩效之间的假设关系的支持。统计结果表明，团队自治和敏捷沟通的敏捷实践有助于增强心理能力，从而导致敏捷团队的创新行为。创新行为也影响了项目绩效。