A C Bharath, Sreeanand Chandran, Sunitha Shenoy
For every IT Software industry / organization, role of the human factor is one of the most important in any project's tenure. In the present IT industry, Agile has gained rapid interest. Software organizations are exploring the utilization of Agile development strategies and approaches in the current competitive environments because of their better correspondence and coordination, improved efficiency, and quicker productivity. Agile is not just overseeing projects; it's tied in with driving, leading, and figuring out individuals. In Agile Manifesto, the primary view states that agile projects should focus on individuals and interactions over processes and tools.In any agile project, human power is the base and key strength of success. These human strengths are clustered and collectively recognized in forming good agile teams. These agile teams will become successful with good leadership traits. One of those simple, good, and interesting traits for any good leader is bringingempathy in agile teams.Empathy can be defined as, 'the capability for understanding of one’s emotion and act accordingly'. Empathy is an area of growing interest with suggestions within agile team members that bring a broad cultural shift in agile teams, necessarily towards facilitating increased bonds between everyone. Understanding this empathy between the agile team members will certainly have a good emotional, positive and significant effect on the project's success and productivity, with the thought of mediating roles played by team composition.In this paper, we are about to deliver and conduct deeper research into the human side of Agile, focusing on the significance of empathy with its effective team dynamics towards crafting successful Agile teams.
Agile Manifesto, Empathy, Leadership, Agile Teams