Identifying Critical Areas for Improvement in Agile Multi-site Co-development

Raoul Vallon, Klaus Bayrhammer, Stefan Strobl, Mario Bernhart, Thomas Grechenig
DB

Abstract

Agile processes potentially ease distributed software development by demanding regular communication and self-management of virtual team members. However, being designed for collocated teams, extensions to the regular process need to be made. We investigate critical areas of improvement based on a case of distributed Scrum involving two unaffiliated Austrian IT organizations that collaborate to build software. We identified eight critical areas for improvement originating from interviews, retrospective meetings and an in-depth case analysis. Key suggestions for practice include the establishment of long-lived single-site Scrum teams and the application of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) to make implicit requirement knowledge explicit and transparent to all of the distributed parties.

Type
Conference paper
Publication
Talk: The 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2013), Angers, Frankreich; 07-04-2013 - 07-06-2013; in: “Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering”, L. Maciaszek, J. Filipe (ed.); SciTePress, (2013), ISBN: 978-989-8565-62-4; 150 - 164
Thomas Grechenig
Thomas Grechenig
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.