ADAPTATION PATTERNS IN AGILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

This research draws on team adaptation theory to study how agile information systems development (ISD) teams respond to non-routine events in their work environment. Based on our findings from a qualitative case study of three ISD teams, we identified non-routine events that could be distinguished according to the three categories task volatility, technological disruption, and team instability. In addi-tion, we found three patterns of reacting to these events that differed regarding complexity and team learning. Our results show that the theoretical link between different types of events and adaption pat