Agile Methoden als Werkzeug des Belastungsmanagements? Eine arbeitsvermögensbasierte Perspektive / Agile project management as a way to cope with workload? A perspective based on labour capacity

Pfeiffer Sabine (), Sauer Stefan () and Ritter Tobias ()
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Pfeiffer Sabine: Universität Hohenheim Fakultät für Wirtschafts- u. Sozialwissenschaften Lehrstuhl für Soziologie (550D) D-70599 Stuttgart
Sauer Stefan: Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung e.V. - ISF München Jakob-Klar-Str. 9 D-80796 München
Ritter Tobias: Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung e.V. - ISF München Jakob-Klar-Str. 9 D-80796 München

Arbeit, 2014, vol. 23, issue 2, 119-132

Abstract: Project-based work is referred to as a prototype for knowledge-based work. Whereas project management is still mostly controlled by conventional methods of project management, agile methods try' to implement team-based self-organization. In that context, effects of workload are mostly unexplored. Based on a qualitative case-study on software development, the article presents heterogeneous ways of dealing with these methods and resulting workload. Focussing on team members’ labour capacity shows, that agile methods can provide fragile protection against new types of workload and self-exploitation.

Keywords: agile project management; labour capacity; workload; Agiles Projektmanagement; Arbeitsvermögen; Belastung; agile project management; labour capacity; workload (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1515/arbeit-2014-0206

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