How Did We Adapt Agile Processes to Our Distributed Development?

Young, Christopher; Terashima, Hiroki

doi:10.1109/agile.2008.7

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“…Although several studies have reported successful integration of Agile and GSE (e.g. ), a thorough analysis of the studies to reveal the applicability of the reported experiences and best practices in different organizational settings and project demands is yet unexplored.…”

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Global software engineering and agile practices: a systematic review

Jalali

Wohlin

2011

J Software Evolu Process

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Agile practices have received attention from industry as an alternative to plan-driven software development approaches. Agile encourages e.g. small self-organized collocated teams, whilst global software engineering (GSE) implies distribution across cultural, temporal and geographical boundaries. Hence, combining them is a challenge. A systematic review was conducted to capture the status of combining agility with GSE. The results were limited to peer-reviewed conference papers or journal articles, published between 1999 and 2009. The synthesis was made through classifying the papers into different categories (e.g. publication year, contribution type, research method). At the end 81 were judged as primary for further analysis. The distribution of papers over the years indicated that GSE and Agile in combination has received more attention in the last five years. However, the majority of the existing research is industrial experience reports, in which Agile practices were modified with respect to the context and situational requirements. The emergent need in this research area is suggested to be developing a framework that considers various factors from different perspectives when incorporating Agile in GSE. Practitioners may use it as a decision-making basis in early phases of software development.

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Global software engineering and agile practices: a systematic review

Jalali

Wohlin

2011

J Software Evolu Process

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112

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“…Therefore, video-conferencing is often used as an alternative to face-to-face meetings to capture the visual aspects of communication such as hand gestures or facial expressions [40,41]. While most teams used video-conferencing, collocation, or team ambassadors to bind teams together, we found that some team members (P6, P8, P9, P25) have not even seen the faces of all members in the team.…”

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Understanding Team Dynamics in Distributed Agile Software Development

Dorairaj

Noble

Malik

2012

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Team dynamics are patterns of interaction among team members that determine the performance of the team. Success of Agile software development depends on team interaction. Team interactions are, however, affected in distributed teams. We conducted a Grounded Theory study to investigate team interaction in distributed Agile teams involving 40 Agile practitioners from 24 different software companies in the USA, Western Europe, Australia and India. We present six eminent strategies that promote team interaction in distributed Agile teams.

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“…Further, when considering the best practices for team communication, it is important to take into account the physical setting (e.g., direct or indirect communication) [62]. Therefore, taking this factor into consideration can assist in the selection of an appropriate Agile method for a given project [54], [63] and ensure effective implementation of the method [57], [69].…”

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“…Empirical results demonstrate that having extensive communication skills is the main factor that influences the success of Agile methods [56], [109]. Studies have shown that team communication is vital in implementing an Agile method [35], [68] and in improving the method's effectiveness [57], [69]. In a project implementation, effective team communication is one of the most important factors for the successful adoption of Agile methods [6], [68].…”

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Key Factors for Selecting an Agile Method: A Systematic Literature Review

Alqudah¹,

Razali²

2017

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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Abstract-Agile methods have become popular in recent years because the success rate of project development using Agile methods is better than structured design methods. Nevertheless, less than 50 percent of projects implemented using Agile methods are considered successful, and selecting the wrong Agile method is one of the reasons for project failure. Selecting the most appropriate Agile method is a challenging task because there are so many to choose from. In addition, potential adopters believe that migrating to an Agile method involves taking a drastic risk. Therefore, to assist project managers and other decision makers, this study aims to identify the key factors that should be considered when selecting an appropriate Agile method. A systematic literature review was performed to elicit these factors in an unbiased manner, and then content analysis was used to analyze the resultant data. It was found that the nature of the project, development team skills, project constraints, customer involvement and organizational culture are the key factors that should guide decision makers in the selection of an appropriate Agile method based on the value these factors have for different organizations and/or different projects.

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How Did We Adapt Agile Processes to Our Distributed Development?

Cited by 23 publications

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Global software engineering and agile practices: a systematic review

Global software engineering and agile practices: a systematic review

Understanding Team Dynamics in Distributed Agile Software Development

Key Factors for Selecting an Agile Method: A Systematic Literature Review

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