Applying XP to an Agile–Inexperienced Software Development Team

Silva, Liana C.; Santana, Célio; Rocha, F. E. de C.; Paschoalino, Maíra; Falconieri, Gabriel; Ribeiro, Lucio; Medeiros, Renata; Soares, Sérgio; Gusmão, Cristine

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68255-4_12

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“…Last, when comparing our lessons with previously published reports [9,11,13] on topics similar to ours, we found that our conclusions converge with observations made by other agile practitioners. For example, Silva et al [13] found that the interaction between the programmers is affected throughout the project when not everyone is able to keep regular face-to-face meetings. This agrees with our experiences regarding the part-timers' participation.…”

Section: Lessons Learntsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Although the core agile practices [6,12] seem intuitive and easy to apply, empirical studies [3,8] indicate that their implementation requires experience, discipline and motivation. This poses a serious challenge especially to inexperienced teams [13]. For example, when the process is not well tuned, and developers lack agile experience, it is difficult to achieve the efficiency and flexibility that the agile followers claim to be the particularity of this development method.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sprint Planning with a Digital Aid Tool: Lessons Learnt

Engum

Racheva

Daneva

2009

2009 35th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

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Managing the product's backlog is a major task in agile projects. This case study reports on one organization's experiences from the transition to a backlog management tool and its contribution to improving sprint planning.. Our key lessons learnt are that a tool is particularly appropriate to organize and specify backlog items in a transparent manner and to handle dependencies. However, we also observed an overhead in backlog management and in reporting during meetings. The concrete project settings play the paramount role in whether such a tool helps or harms the process.

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Section: Lessons Learntsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sprint Planning with a Digital Aid Tool: Lessons Learnt

Engum

Racheva

Daneva

2009

2009 35th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

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“…In the last two decades, agile methods increased their popularity and were established as the main software development methodologies. A large number of efforts [2][3][4][5] were focused on studying their application under different circumstances and evaluate their advantages and shortcomings. In [4] the authors conducted a systematic review of works that used Scrum guidelines in a global software development (GSD) context.…”

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confidence: 99%

Blueprint Model: An Agile-Oriented Methodology for Tackling Global Software Development Challenges

Cruz¹,

Godoy²,

Santos³

et al. 2020

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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In recent decades, the challenge of managing the development teams spread across different time zones has become increasingly common, raising the importance of the development of Global Software Development (GSD) techniques, in order to tackle its particular problems. This work discuss these issues in the context of Sidia, an R&D institute which implements technological solutions for global companies. The main partner of Sidia is a mobile multinational company located in overseas. The development team must cooperate with the overseas team, even though there are no overlapping working hours between both teams. Besides, the teams have a different set of skills regarding design, quality assurance, and software engineering. In order to address theses problems, we propose the Blueprint model, a Kanban and Scrum based model that supports the development of GSD systems, the allocation of tasks and teams, and the efficient communication. Finally, we discuss the aspects and lessons learned of development of project and deploy of a new model for systems development on a real-word project.

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“…In the last two decades, agile methods increased their popularity and were established as primary software development methodologies. A large number of efforts [4][5][6][7] were focused on studying their application under different circumstances and evaluate their advantages and shortcomings. Felker et al [8] evaluated the implementation of the Scrum framework for both UX and software development in an undergraduate team without Scrum's previous experiences.…”

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confidence: 99%

Improving Workload Estimation in Inexperienced Teams with Hybrid Agile Approach

Pires¹,

Pahins²,

Fonseca³

2020

Computer Science &Amp; Information Technology (CS &Amp; IT)

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SCRUM framework is an agile technique that is widely used by development teams in order deliver incremental value to customers and dynamically react to project needs. SCRUM framework might be adapted to conform the development team specificities. In the context of an industry project, we have found that an inexperienced development team frequently faced difficulties with estimating the time needed to complete tasks, which led to missed deadlines in most of the projects. Such problem hampers the risk management and degrades the relationship with the customer. Upon closer analysis, it was identified that the main reason to this issue was the team's inability to breaking down a larger task into smaller sub-tasks and associate a realistic workload to each part. Then, based on traditional techniques, a structured approach to workload estimation was introduced in the SCRUM planning meeting to leverage the team's estimation skill. This approach was implemented in two development projects and increased the accuracy in the estimate defined by the team, yielding realistic schedules and increasing technical visibility.

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Applying XP to an Agile–Inexperienced Software Development Team

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Sprint Planning with a Digital Aid Tool: Lessons Learnt

Sprint Planning with a Digital Aid Tool: Lessons Learnt

Blueprint Model: An Agile-Oriented Methodology for Tackling Global Software Development Challenges

Improving Workload Estimation in Inexperienced Teams with Hybrid Agile Approach

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