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What is Contextual Ambidexterity

Chapter 5
Balancing Agile and Disciplined Engineering and Management Approaches for IT Services and Software Products
Behavioral capacity of the organizational unit to simultaneously manage contradictory demands in the setting.
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Managing Contradictory Tensions in Agile Distributed Development: An Ambidextrous Approach
Ashay Saxena (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India), Shankar Venkatagiri (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India), and Rajendra K. Bandi (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4165-4.ch005
Abstract
Increasingly, agile approaches are being followed in a distributed setup to develop software. An agile approach is characterised by the need to regularly welcome change requests and update the software artefact accordingly whereas distributed teams prefer to work towards following a plan to fulfil project objectives defined upfront. This results in contradictory tensions when agile is practised with teams operating in a globally distributed format. This chapter focuses on exploring the central conflict and discuss approaches to manage the conflicting forces in an agile distributed development setup. Furthermore, it presents an industry case study to provide more clarity on conflict management in such settings.
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Chapter 187
Leader Ambidexterity in Research Teams
Type of Ambidexterity obtained by the alignment of all the different elements of the organization towards specific tasks in order to foster exploration and exploitation at the same time.
Published in Chapter: Leader Ambidexterity in Research Teams; From: Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology
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Chapter 56
Exploration and Exploitation Capabilities
The simultaneous achievement of exploration and exploitation through mechanism different as the structure, as processes or activities.
Published in Chapter: Exploration and Exploitation Capabilities; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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