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Data-Driven Development in Public Sector: How Agile Product Teams Maneuver Data Privacy Regulations

Abstract

Datafication processes, the ongoing strive for making organizations data-driven, have in recent years entailed data-focused software projects and more interdisciplinary teamwork. Simultaneously as agile product teams have been directed towards increased use of data for software development, stronger data protection regulations such as GDPR have further complexified the software developer role, whose responsibilities and expectations now expand far beyond mere coding. Seeking to develop an understanding of how data-intensive product teams in the public sector maneuver the legal hurdles emerging in the wake of data governance, this paper builds on 19 interviews with members of two agile product teams in the Norwegian organizations NAV and Entur. Our findings indicate that including a legal expert in the team can boost confidence in data handling practices and avoid delays in deliveries, but it requires effort to synchronize and overcome interdisciplinary barriers.

Category

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Client

  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 321477

Language

English

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Software Engineering, Safety and Security
  • University of Oslo

Year

2023

Publisher

Springer

Book

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 24th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2023, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 13–16, 2023, Proceedings

Issue

475

ISBN

978-3-031-33976-9

Page(s)

165 - 180

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