摘要: ABSTRACT Coordination has long been recognized as contributing to successful IT projects. Agile software development provides many practices for achieving project coordination in small co-located Given the importance of projects and increasing popularity agile development, investigating this context is timely potentially useful. This paper takes an existing theory developed from case study research proposes a field test that theory. The question addressed what effect strategy on effectiveness projects? describes initial design field-testing Keywords methods, effectiveness, strategy, theory, explicit coordination, implicit coordination.