Chaos issues on communication in Agile Global Software Development

Kamaruddin, Nina Kamarina; Arshad, Noor Habibah; Mohamed, Azlinah

doi:10.1109/beiac.2012.6226091

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“…Nowadays, software can be developed in many different contexts, by means of different software development approaches, such as Global Software Development (GSD -software development in a globally distributed manner) [3], Agile Software Development (ASD -software development based on agile methods) [4] and Agile Global Software Development (AGSD) [5], [6] (a combination of GSD and ASD). Given such diversity, we put forth that the way that effort is estimated within the context of a project may vary depending on the software development approach being used.…”

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An Empirical Investigation on Effort Estimation in Agile Global Software Development

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Mendes

Börstler

2015

2015 IEEE 10th International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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Abstract-Effort estimation is a project management activity that is mandatory for the execution of software projects. Despite its importance, there have been just a few studies published on such activities within the Agile Global Software Development (AGSD) context. Their aggregated results were recently published as part of a secondary study that reported the state of the art on effort estimation in AGSD. This study aims to complement the aforementioned secondary study by means of an empirical investigation on the state of the practice towards effort estimation in AGSD. To do so, a survey was carried out using as instrument an on-line questionnaire and a sample comprising software practitioners experienced in effort estimation within the AGSD context. Results show that the effort estimation techniques used within the AGSD and collocated contexts remained unchanged, with planning poker being the one employed the most. Sourcing strategies were found to have no or a small influence upon the choice of estimation techniques. With regard to effort predictors, global challenges such as cultural and time zone differences were reported, in addition to factors that are commonly considered in the collocated context, such as team experience. Finally, many challenges that impact the accuracy of the effort estimates were reported by the respondents, such as problems with software requirements and the fact that the communication overhead between sites is not properly accounted.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Empirical Investigation on Effort Estimation in Agile Global Software Development

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Mendes

Börstler

2015

2015 IEEE 10th International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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“…Kamaruddin et al [19] reported that many issues affect communication models, such as communication tools, communication of requirements and communication about product quality. Brigss et al [45] concluded that satisfaction with meetings is an important measure of the effectiveness of collaboration technologies.…”

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“…Refs = references (indicates literature supporting the measure). [19] communication mechanism rate and communication mechanism usefulness. Table 3 shows a subset of the measures, classified by dimensión, collected in this research to evalúate the perception of the communication infrastructure.…”

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An exploratory study in communication in Agile Global Software Development

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Computer Standards & Interfaces

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Keywords:Global Distributed Software Development Agüe Exploratory research Tools and technologies Infrastructure Global software development (GSD) is gaining ever more relevance. Although communication is key in the exchange of information between team members, multi-site software development has introduced additional obstacles (different time-zones and cultures, IT infrastructure, etc.) and delays into the act of communication, which is already problematic. Communication is even more critical in the case of Agile Global Software Development (AGSD) in which communication plays a primary role. This paper reports an exploratory study of the effects of tools supporting communication in AGSD. More precisely, this paper analyses the perception of team members about communication infrastructures in AGSD. The research question to which this study responds concerns how development teams perceive the communication infrastructure while developing products using agile methodologies. Most previous studies have dealt with communication support from a highly technological media tool perspective. In this research work, instead, observations were obtained from three perspectives: communication among team members, communication of the status of the development process, and communication of the status of the progress of the product under development. It has been possible to show that team members perceive advantages to using media tools that make them feel in practice that teams are co-located, such as smartboards supported by effident video-tools, and combining media tools with centralized repository tools, with information from the process development and product characteristics, that allow distributed teams to effectively share information about the status of the project/process/product during the development process in order to overeóme some of the still existing problems in communication in AGSD.

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“…ASD [2] and GSD are 21 st century trends in software industry. Studies have been conducted to investigate the adoption of agile methods and practices in GSD context, also called by Agile Global Software Development (AGSD) [3].…”

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Effort Estimation in Agile Global Software Development Context

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Usman

Mendes

2014

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Both Agile Software Development (ASD) and Global Software Development (GSD) are 21 st century trends in the software industry. Many studies are reported in the literature wherein software companies have applied an agile method or practice GSD. Given that effort estimation plays a remarkable role in software project management, how do companies perform effort estimation when they use agile method in a GSD context? Based on two effort estimation Systematic Literature Reviews (SLR) -one in within the ASD context and the other in a GSD context, this paper reports a study in which we combined the results of these SLRs to report the state of the art of effort estimation in agile global software development (ASD) context.

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Chaos issues on communication in Agile Global Software Development

Cited by 28 publications

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An Empirical Investigation on Effort Estimation in Agile Global Software Development

An Empirical Investigation on Effort Estimation in Agile Global Software Development

An exploratory study in communication in Agile Global Software Development

Effort Estimation in Agile Global Software Development Context

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