Effective Communication in Distributed Agile Software Development Teams

Dorairaj, Siva; Noble, James; Malik, Petra

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20677-1_8

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“…We presented several other findings from this study in different papers [22,23,24,25,26,27]. In this paper, we aimed to investigate the question described in section 1, which is "How do Agile teams gather, store, share, and use knowledge in distributed software development?"…”

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Knowledge Management in Distributed Agile Software Development

Dorairaj

Noble

Malik

2012

2012 Agile Conference

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Software development teams need highly valuable knowledge to carry out knowledge-intensive development activities. Agile teams are cross-functional teams that promote sharing of projectspecific knowledge through frequent face-to-face interaction, effective communication and customer collaboration. Knowledge sharing is difficult for distributed Agile teams due to spatial, temporal, and cultural barriers, which negatively affect face-to-face interaction, communication and collaboration. There seems to be very few studies that focus on knowledge management in distributed Agile teams. Through a Grounded Theory study that involved 45 participants from 28 different software companies in the USA, India and Australia, we investigate distributed software development from the specific perspective of Agile teams. In this paper, we describe how Agile teams gather, store, share and use knowledge in distributed software development.

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Knowledge Management in Distributed Agile Software Development

Dorairaj

Noble

Malik

2012

2012 Agile Conference

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“…There is a common theme underlying the various definitions and descriptions in that communication is generally defined in terms of exchanging the adequate information in short time (Bhalerao & Ingle 2010;Cannizzo et al 2008;Dorairaj et al 2011;Melo et al 2011;Misra et al 2009). Furthermore, the previous literature views communication efficiency and communication effectiveness as the two different scopes of active communication.…”

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“…Considering the impacts of time, cost and effort on communication, a GDAD team tends to first decide what and how much they would communicate, which affects communication effectiveness (Dorairaj et al 2011). Clear communication may not be achieved by sending short message (Clarke & Brennan 1991).…”

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A measurement model to analyze the effect of agile enterprise architecture on geographically distributed agile development

Alzoubi

Gill

Moulton

2018

J Softw Eng Res Dev

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Efficient and effective communication (active communication) among stakeholders is thought to be central to agile development. However, in geographically distributed agile development (GDAD) environments, it can be difficult to achieve active communication among distributed teams due to challenges such as differences in proximity and time. BackgroundAgile methods have been introduced to address a number of issues related to the development and delivery of software projects. These issues include projects running over budget, projects running behind schedule, and projects not meeting customers' needs and expectations (Chow & Cao 2008). Agile methods emerged over a period of time to increasingly influence future trends in software and information system development in both the local and distributed contexts (Gill 2015a). According to Ramesh

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“…The success of a software project depends on the project human resources and their relationships [19] [13] [14]. This is very significant in agile methods as agile philosophy emphasis the value of individuals and interactions more than following procedures [5].…”

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Challenges to Practice Agile Methods in Global Software Development – A Review of Literature

Vithana¹,

Asirvatham²,

Johar³

2018

IJCA

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Global Software Development (GSD) is the process of developing software by globally distributed teams and it has become increasingly popular due to the many benefits it offers. Reduced costs, access to a wide range of skilled people and reduction in application development time are the major attractions to GSD.Agile methods are popular software development methodologies that help companies deliver high quality products rapidly. Though Agile methods were originally developed for co-located teams, it is now being used in GSD to achieve the benefits of Agile in GSD combination.Agile methods heavily rely on frequent informal communication between all stakeholders of the project. GSD introduces time, cultural and geographical barriers to this requirement. This paper categorises the various challenges in to 9 broad categories and develops a hypothetical model on impact of the challenges on project success.

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Effective Communication in Distributed Agile Software Development Teams

Cited by 38 publications

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Knowledge Management in Distributed Agile Software Development

Knowledge Management in Distributed Agile Software Development

A measurement model to analyze the effect of agile enterprise architecture on geographically distributed agile development

Challenges to Practice Agile Methods in Global Software Development – A Review of Literature

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