The ability to self-organise is posited to be a fundamental requirement for successful agile teams. In particular, self-organising teams are said to be crucial in agile globally distributed software development (AGSD) settings, where distance exacerbates team issues. We used contextual analysis to study the specific interaction behaviours and enacted roles of practitioners working in multiple AGSD teams. Our results show that the teams studied were extremely task focussed, and those who occupied team lead or programmer roles were central to their teams' self-organisation. These findings have implications for AGSD teams, and particularly for instances when programmers - or those occupying similar non-leadership positions - may not be willing to accept such responsibilities. We discuss the implications of our findings for information system development (ISD) practice.

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敏捷全球分布式团队中的自组织角色

自组织能力被认为是成功的敏捷团队的基本要求。特别是，据说自组织团队在敏捷全球分布式软件开发 (AGSD) 环境中至关重要，在这种环境中，距离会加剧团队问题。我们使用上下文分析来研究在多个 AGSD 团队中工作的从业者的特定交互行为和角色。我们的结果表明，所研究的团队非常专注于任务，那些担任团队领导或程序员角色的团队是团队自组织的核心。这些发现对 AGSD 团队有影响，特别是当程序员——或那些担任类似非领导职位的人——可能不愿意接受这样的责任时。