Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams

Bass, Julian M.

doi:10.1109/icgse.2013.27

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“…To validate proposed framework we have selected seven project management success factors in distributed settings to evaluate the proposed framework. These success factors were identified during the literature study [22,25,[33][34][35][36]. For evaluation of our framework we used different methods as described in Table 1.…”

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Towards Scrum Based Agile Framework for Global Software Development Teams

Shafiq

Hafeez

Ali

et al. 2019

Mehran Univ. res. j. eng. technol.

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Organizations are moving their workforce to guarantee matters of trade and profit where accounts are expected to be less expensive and provide better quality products with the accessibility of skilled labor. With the evident benefits, distributed teams often face challenges with reliable and efficient communication coordination patterns that lead towards project failure. In the rapidly growing software industry, it becomes critical for any business to have better management activities to acquire right processes and practices. Agile methods are considered as a remedy for mitigating distributed teams’ challenges, with their consistent focus on communication. Here, we intend to propose a tailored Scrum based solution for distributed teams that empowers anticipated communication and coordination throughout the development process. In the first phase of framework development we have evaluated the state of agile practices from both literature and industry; based on collected evidence and suggestive guidelines a scrum based agile framework was formulated. The Scrum is a project management method in Agile Methods family. Scrum is an iterative process that asks for incremental development of the product, includes cross functional development and testing teams. Evaluation results show that the proposed framework contributes positively to improve development process quality. We have performed theoretical as well as empirical evaluation to validate proposed framework. We have eight project managing rising aspects in DSD (Distributed Software Development) to evaluate the proposed framework.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Towards Scrum Based Agile Framework for Global Software Development Teams

Shafiq

Hafeez

Ali

et al. 2019

Mehran Univ. res. j. eng. technol.

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“…Grounded theory has been used to investigate customers in agile projects using extreme programming [31] and activities in co-located self-organizing scrum teams in small and medium sized companies [23]. While Bass, investigates large-scale development programs but specifically focuses on product owner teams [7]. This research uses a qualitative, grounded theory, approach to investigate software engineering practice comprising 8 international companies and semi-structured interviews with 46 practitioners.…”

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Scrum Master Activities: Process Tailoring in Large Enterprise Projects

Bass

2014

2014 IEEE 9th International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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CopyrightItems in 'OpenAIR@RGU', Robert Gordon University Open Access Institutional Repository, are protected by copyright and intellectual property law. If you believe that any material held in 'OpenAIR@RGU' infringes copyright, please contact openair-help@rgu.ac.uk with details. The item will be removed from the repository while the claim is investigated. Abstract-This paper explores practitioner descriptions of agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore or outsourced enterprise projects. Specifically, tailoring of the scrum master role is investigated. The scrum master acts as a facilitator for software development teams, nurturing adherence to agile practices and removing impediments for team members. But in large projects, scrum masters often work together in geographically distributed teams. Scrum masters use sprint planning to avoid development tasks that overlap team boundaries, coordinate status and effort across teams, and integrate code bases. The study comprises 8 international companies in London, Bangalore and Delhi. Interviews with 46 practitioners were conducted between February 2010 and May 2012. A grounded theory research method was used to identify that the scrum master role comprises six activities: process anchor, stand-up facilitator, impediment remover, sprint planner, scrum of scrums facilitator, and integration anchor. This systematic description of activities in scrum master teams extends our understanding of practitioner perspectives on agile process tailoring in large enterprises. Understanding these activities will help coaches guide large scale agile teams.

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“…Scrum methodology needs to be customized to match the requirements of distributed projects [20]. Bass [20] classifies nine different roles of the product owner such as tutor, councilor, capable to prioritize user stories, expert and foresee risks.…”

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“…Bass [20] classifies nine different roles of the product owner such as tutor, councilor, capable to prioritize user stories, expert and foresee risks. Bass (2010) Jalali and Wohlin [21] report a survey to describe the strengths and consequences of practicing agile methodologies in DSD projects.…”

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confidence: 99%

Novel Framework to Improve Communication and Coordination among Distributed Agile Teams

Qureshi¹,

Basheri²,

Alzahrani³

2018

IJIEEB

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Abstract-This paper discusses the roles of communication and coordination (C&C) in the agile teams. C&C are important activities that a project manager has to deal with tactically during the development of software projects to avoid the consequences. Their importance further increases especially in case of distributed software development (DSD). C&C are considered as project drivers to accomplish a project successfully within budget and schedule. There are several issues associated to poor C&C those can lead to fail software projects such as budget deficit, delay in delivery, conflicts among team members, unclear goals of project and architectural, technical and integration dependencies. C&C issues are critical and vital for collocated teams but their presences in distributed teams are disastrous. Scrum is one of the most widely practiced agile models and it is gaining further popularity in the agile community. Therefore, a novel framework is proposed to address the issues that are associated to C&C using Scrum methodology. The proposed framework is validated through a questionnaire. The results are found supportive to reflect that it will help to resolve the C&C issues effectively and efficiently.

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Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams

Cited by 31 publications

References 22 publications

Towards Scrum Based Agile Framework for Global Software Development Teams

Towards Scrum Based Agile Framework for Global Software Development Teams

Scrum Master Activities: Process Tailoring in Large Enterprise Projects

Novel Framework to Improve Communication and Coordination among Distributed Agile Teams

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