Agile software development, a paradigm that emphasizes project team autonomy and the value of responding to changes over following standardized processes, has gained prominence in the software industry. Prior investigations on the adoptions of agile paradigms for software operations and their performance implications have typically focused on isolated aspects of software development processes. In this study, we adopt a configurational perspective of software operations and assess the causal impacts of adopting an organizational policy that grants higher levels of autonomy to project teams. Building on the equifinality framework proposed in organizational studies, we posit that an organizational policy that provides higher levels of autonomy for software teams engenders performance-enhancing adaptations through agile reconfigurations of project operations. To test our hypothesis, we collaborated with a commercial software firm and collected data from a policy experiment at the firm. We examined project-level data spanning a four-year observation period during which the firm implemented a new policy that significantly reduced the hurdles for project teams to autonomously reconfigure their operations. The results support our postulation and shed light on how an organizational policy that provides greater autonomy to software

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重新配置敏捷性：通过组织政策实验检查项目团队自治的绩效影响

敏捷软件开发是一种强调项目团队自主性和响应变化而不是遵循标准化流程的价值的范式，在软件行业中已获得突出地位。先前对软件操作采用敏捷范式及其性能影响的调查通常集中在软件开发过程的孤立方面。在这项研究中，我们采用软件操作的配置视角，并评估采用授予项目团队更高级别自主权的组织政策的因果影响。以组织研究中提出的平等框架为基础，我们认为，为软件团队提供更高级别自主权的组织政策通过敏捷重新配置项目运营来提高绩效。为了检验我们的假设，我们与一家商业软件公司合作，并从该公司的政策实验中收集数据。我们检查了跨越四年观察期的项目级数据，在此期间，该公司实施了一项新政策，该政策显着减少了项目团队自主重新配置其运营的障碍。结果支持我们的假设，并阐明了如何为软件提供更大自主权的组织政策 我们检查了跨越四年观察期的项目级数据，在此期间，该公司实施了一项新政策，该政策显着减少了项目团队自主重新配置其运营的障碍。结果支持我们的假设，并阐明了如何为软件提供更大自主权的组织政策 我们检查了跨越四年观察期的项目级数据，在此期间，该公司实施了一项新政策，该政策显着减少了项目团队自主重新配置其运营的障碍。结果支持我们的假设，并阐明了如何为软件提供更大自主权的组织政策