Adaptation of Modern Agile Practices in Global Software Engineering

Abstract

Software engineering has been an active working area for many decades. It evolved in a bi-folded manner. First research and subsequently development. Since the day of its inception, the massive number of variants and methods of software engineering were proposed. Primarily, these methods are designed to cater the time-varying need of modern approach. In this connection, the Global Software Engineering (GSE) is one of the growing trends in the modern software industry. At the same time, the employment of Agile development methodologies has also gained the significant attention in the literature. This has created a rationale to explore and adopt agile development methodology in GSE. It gained rigorous attention as an alternative to traditional software development methodologies. This paper has presented a comprehensive review on the adaptation of modern agile practices in GSE. In addition, the strength and limitation of each approach have been highlighted. Finally, the open area in the said domain is submitted as one of the deliverables of this work.

Knowledge activities applied | towards a holistic knowledge management approach in the software industry

“…The software industry had to find ways of dealing with knowledge at a time when knowledge management as a scientific discipline had not yet evolved, as software development is simply inherently knowledge-intensive. The emergence of agile approaches to planning, executing and managing software projects (Abrahamsson et al, 2002) was an important step forward, not only because of its success (Mansoor et al, 2019) but also from a knowledge management perspective with its emphasis on knowledge transfer, collaboration and face-to-face communication. In the 1990s, after works such as Nonaka's socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization (SECI) model (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) and first notions of knowledge activities (KAs; Pentland, 1995;Andersen, 1996) had been published, software developers' best practice started being complemented by research addressing the particularities of knowledge, knowledge management and creation in software engineering.…”

“…Nowadays, Scrum is the most widely adopted agile framework, and more recent incarnations of the idea are gaining importance in the software industry (Table 1). The Modern Agile initiative is a relatively new movement trying overcome shortcomings often observed in today's agile projects and instead return to the roots of what was originally considered "agile," proposing an iteration to the original agile principles: Make people awesome, make safety a prerequisite, experiment and learn rapidly, deliver value continuously (Modern Agile website, 2022; Mansoor et al, 2019). While Modern Agile aims to be more agile, an agile derivative moving into the opposite direction is getting more and more relevant, in particular for large projects.…”