Abstract
Achieving success in software development projects is a perennial challenge, and agile software development methods emerged to tackle this challenge. Agile software development provides a way to organise complex multi-participant software development projects while achieving fast delivery of quality software, meeting customer requirements, and coping effectively with project change. There is little understanding, however, of how such projects achieve effective coordination, which is a critical factor in successful software projects. Based on evidence from four cases, this chapter presents a theory explaining coordination in agile software projects. This theory defines the concepts of coordination strategy and coordination effectiveness and propositions explaining their relationship. This theory contributes to coordination literature by presenting clearly delineated concepts and their relationships in the form of a variance theory. For IT project management, this theory contributes to knowledge of coordination and coordination effectiveness in the context of agile software development.
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