COVID-19’s Influence on the Future of Agile

Mancl, Dennis; Fraser, Steven

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58858-8_32

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“…Furthermore, they point out that forming new teams and onboarding, a critical part of student projects, is more challenging in virtual work environments [31].…”

Section: Influence Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Agile Teams and Collaborationmentioning

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Challenges (and Opportunities!) of a Remote Agile Software Engineering Project Course During COVID-19

Matthies¹,

Teusner²,

Perscheid³

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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COVID-19 and its immediate impacts on teaching activities have required changes from computer science educators worldwide. We switched our on-site courses to remote setups without detailed knowledge of what tools, techniques, and methods would work in different teaching contexts. A growing amount of experience reports on general best practices for remote teaching in higher education are available. However, university courses featuring practical software development projects present unique challenges regarding remote learning, as effective student collaboration is vital. In these courses, students tackle situations in the project and their team meetings that would also occur in real software projects experienced in industry settings. In this paper, we share our experiences on how we successfully adapted our software engineering project course to a remote setup, which challenges we observed in student teams and how they can be mitigated, and what (surprisingly) worked better than expected. Finally, we propose improvements that we expect will be beneficial not only for future remote-only but also for hybrid or on-site courses.

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“…Furthermore, they point out that forming new teams and onboarding, a critical part of student projects, is more challenging in virtual work environments [31].…”

Section: Influence Of Covid-19 Pandemic On Agile Teams and Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges (and Opportunities!) of a Remote Agile Software Engineering Project Course During COVID-19

Matthies¹,

Teusner²,

Perscheid³

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…The possible impact of Covid-19 on Agile was discussed by Mancl et al [14] in his article based on a panel discussion during the XP2020 conference. Based on their experience they emphasize the importance of carefully selected online tools facilitating the communication and self-organization of the ASDT.…”

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“…The importance of online telecommunication tools: text, audio and visual in distributed ASDT was brought up in an article by Robinson [6]. As described by Mancl et al [14] proper use of tools turned out to be crucial when all teams became distributed.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The State of Agile Software Development Teams During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Marek

Wińska

Dąbrowski

2021

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 forced Agile Software Development Teams (ASDT) to rapidly transition to remote work and adapt to new business circumstances. The focus of this research was to investigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ASDT work and what tools and metrics are used by ASDT. A global survey was performed with 120 answers from different software engineering teams. The results of the research indicate that the work of ASDT wasn't significantly impacted. Most of the ASDT had experience with working in a distributed or remote environment. Therefore, most of the ASDT were able to transitioned to full remote work. Results indicate the Covid-19 pandemic didn't have much impact on Product Backlog and Vision. Moreover, most ASDT didn't change their Definition of Done and release frequency, indicating that the pace and quality of work wasn't disturbed during the Covid-19 pandemic. The few ASDT that changed their work organization did it together with changes to Product Backlog and Vision. Results indicate that the prevalence of distributed teams and remote work among ASDT helped with the transition to fully remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, this article presents gathered data of popularity of different online cooperation tools and metrics used by ASDT.

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“…The effects of remote work on the social aspects and how teams react to such a change of work organization has not yet been extensively investigated in the area of agile software development before the Covid 19 outbreak in 2020. However, the first studies have already been published, which are dealing with the effects of the pandemic-induced ad-hoc switch to remote work in the area of agile software development (e.g., [14,15]) and beyond (e.g., [16,17]). We want to investigate how agile software development teams deal with the upcoming challenges concerning their methods and practices in use.…”

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The Impact of Covid 19 on Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

Neumann¹,

Bogdanov²

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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In 2020, the world changed due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Containment measures to reduce the spread of the virus were planned and implemented by many countries and companies. Worldwide, companies sent their employees to work from home. This change has led to significant challenges in teams that were co-located before the pandemic. Agile software development teams were affected by this switch, as agile methods focus on communication and collaboration. Research results have already been published on the challenges of switching to remote work and the effects on agile software development teams. This article presents a systematic literature review. We identified 12 relevant papers for our studies and analyzed them on detail. The results provide an overview how agile software development teams reacted to the switch to remote work, e.g., which agile practices they adapted. We also gained insights on the changes of the performance of agile software development teams and social effects on agile software development teams during the pandemic.

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COVID-19’s Influence on the Future of Agile

Cited by 33 publications

References 4 publications

Challenges (and Opportunities!) of a Remote Agile Software Engineering Project Course During COVID-19

Challenges (and Opportunities!) of a Remote Agile Software Engineering Project Course During COVID-19

The State of Agile Software Development Teams During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Impact of Covid 19 on Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

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