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Table 1 A summary of interviews

From: Scrum adoption and architectural extensions in developing new service applications of large financial IT systems

Aspect

Comment

An interview instrument (10 pages)

\(\bullet \) Common questions to all the interviewees and focused questions for different specialist groups

21 interviews The length of each interview was 1.5–2 h

\(\bullet \) 33 specialists from the case organisation’s different areas at and the managerial levels

 

\(\bullet \) Two researchers interviewed one or two subjects

 

\(\bullet \) One subject was interviewed in each seven interview session of architects

 

\(\bullet \) The researchers also took notes during the interview sessions

Recording interviews

\(\bullet \) Full recoding of interviews

Transcription of recordings

\(\bullet \) Using a professional transcription company

 

\(\bullet \) Transcribed interview data in some 20 to 30 pages for each interview

Identifying, classifying and storing interesting quotes in tables

\(\bullet \) Multiple researchers in quoting

Identifying specific results and conclusions

\(\bullet \) Feedback from subjects before final results

 

\(\bullet \) The experts of the company reviewed final results

 

\(\bullet \) All researchers participated in the writing final results