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men n. vel nde int stood by the people involved. signific volves small itted ch for and control. The goal of optimization is being replaced by those of flexibility and responsiveness [33]. Setting up a work team is usually motivated by benefits such as increased productivity, innovation, and employee satisfaction. Research on software development teams has found that team per-formance is linked with the effectiveness of teamwork coordina-tion [19,25]. In the traditional plan-driven approach, work is Our objective is to provide a better understanding of the nature of self-managing agile teams, which can in turn benefit the effec-tive application of agile methods in software development. To this end, we conducted a longitudinal study that draws on the general literature of teamwork and self-managing teams. Such a study can provide valuable insights for understanding the challenge of intro-ducing the self-managing agile team. We sought to answer the fol-lowing research question: How can we explain the teamwork challenges that arise when introducing a self-managing agile team