Purpose:?The Important
principles of the Agile Manifesto can be identified directly or indirectly from
the characteristics of a team Agile development. It works by iterative and
incremental cycles of creating value for the user, it is self-organized, in
constant collaboration with his client, and tries to continuously improve by
wearing a critical look at his activity and his way of function. Faced with
this wide variety of choices, an inevitable question arises for companies
wishing to deploy Agile: How does empowerment occur through an interactional
change in Agile team developments? To address this research question, this
article follows a grounded theory approach and draws on 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews with team members and
project managers working with the Agile approach. From analyzing the teams and
their interactions, the creation of empowerment through continuous interactions
with their stakeholders in the organizational context of petroleum industries. Design/Method/Approach: In order to understand the principles of the Agile method and the empowerment of the team in the context of Agile, we
conducted an exploratory case study in a petroleum company. This study is based
on twenty semi-structured interviews with fifteen project managers and team
members using the Agile method. Each interview took approximately 45 - 120 min. These face-to-face interviews aided to record the verbal
information and capture the interviewee’s expressions and tone. All these
interviews were transcribed for analysis. The NVivo software analysis was used
to gather the data for the research. This data helped in developing more
knowledge about tasks allocated to Agile teams. We applied open coding, the
Strauss, and Corbin GT’s procedure of data analysis to participants’
transcribed interview responses. In addition to Interviews, we accompanied the
teams of developers for seven months. This engagement allowed us to write
observation notes and have discussions informal with developers and project
managers at the corporate. Findings: We categorized the data with short
phrases that summarize the most important
points during a codification. These were
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