Start with your research question

What human factors are important for efficient cooperation in agile software development projects? 

Identify key concepts

human factors efficient cooperation agile software development

You don't need to have a clearly defined research question to start searching in the library databases. Start with some key concepts. Once you know your concepts, you need to work on synonyms and related search terms. These are important because documents can be written using different words for the same concept, but the databases will only search for the terms you enter.

Worksheet to develop your search terms

You can use a worksheet  to develop you own search terms/key concepts and to write down synonyms and related search terms.

• What synonyms and related terms do you know?
• How is the subject described in news and social media?
• Try to search in Libsearch or Google Scholar. Browse the results and see if you find synonyms and related terms in the abstract or the keywords which complements your original search terms. 

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