Knowledge Management Support for Distributed Agile Software Processes

Holz, Harald; Maurer, Frank

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-40052-3_7

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“…We chose GT as our research method for two main reasons. Firstly, GT is suitable to be used in areas that are under-explored or where a new perspective might be beneficial [63], and the literature on distributed Agile software development, particularly on knowledge management, is still scarce [42]. Secondly, GT allows researchers to study social interactions and the behaviour of people [35], and Agile methods focus on people and their interactions in software development teams [64].…”

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“…Software companies often exhort managers to manage knowledge in the routine and practices that the software development teams transforms into valuable product and services. There is, however, a paucity of studies into knowledge management in distributed Agile teams [11,42]. To address this gap, we investigate how distributed teams create and acquire, store, share and use knowledge from the specific perspective of Agile teams.…”

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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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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Knowledge Management in Distributed Agile Software Development

Dorairaj

Noble

Malik

2012

2012 Agile Conference

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“…Due to spatial, temporal and cultural factors, communication also becomes aggravated in the distributed settings [21]. Several studies [8,23] also point out that, knowledge sharing in the distributed agile projects is difficult due the challenges in communication, especially face-to-face interaction between team members in different geographical locations. To address these problems, we investigated how shared knowledge creation and transfer activities performed in the distributed agile projects.…”

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“…In global software development this synchronization is dependent on KM. Some studies have identified that knowledge sharing is difficult in distributed agile project due to the lack of face-to-face communication between team members [7,23]. In the agile software development collaboration and coordination depends on communication, which is crucial to successful software development [50].…”

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Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Agile Projects: Techniques, Strategies and Challenges

Razzak¹,

Ahmed²

2014

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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Abstract-Knowledge management (KM) is essential for success in global software development. Software organizations are now managing knowledge in innovative ways to increase productivity. In agile software development, collaboration and coordination depend on the communication, which is the key to success. To maintain effective collaboration and coordination in distributed agile projects, practitioners need to adopt different types of knowledge sharing techniques and strategies. There are also few studies that focus on knowledge sharing in distributed agile projects. This research identified the knowledge sharing techniques and strategies applied by the practitioners in distributed agile projects. Challenges faced by the practitioners during knowledge sharing in distributed agile projects are also identified and discussed.

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“…Recently, agile methods (Abrahamsson et al, 2003;Damian, 2002;Holtz & Maurer, 2002) have begun again to be focused on the question of how to address key problems in software development; namely, that software takes too long to develop, costs too much to develop, and does not work very well when eventually delivered. In emphasizing speed and simplicity (McCauley, 2001;Highsmith & Cockburn, 2001), those using agile methods seek to avoid prescribing cumbersome and time-consuming processes that add little value to the software product .…”

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