Incorporating social software into distributed agile development environments

Abbattista, Fabio; Calefato, Fabio; Gendarmi, Domenico; Lanubile, Filippo

doi:10.1109/asew.2008.4686310

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“…Through a number of reports by GSD practitioners in the literature, we have found that, despite the obvious difficulties, there are some instances of success of using agile practices with distributed teams [S1-S5]. But other researchers [5] still argue that the fundamental question on whether agile practices can be used in a distributed setting is still open to debate.…”

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Using Scrum in Global Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

Hossain

Babar

Paik

2009

2009 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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Abstract-There is a growing interest in applying agile practices in Global Software Development (GSD) projects. The literature on using Scrum, one of the most popular agile approaches, in distributed development projects has steadily been growing. However, there has not been any effort to systematically select, review, and synthesize the literature on this topic. We have conducted a systematic literature review of the primary studies that report using Scrum practices in GSD projects. Our search strategy identified 366 papers, of which 20 were identified as primary papers relevant to our research. We extracted data from these papers to identify various challenges of using Scrum in GSD. Current strategies to deal with the identified challenges have also been extracted. This paper presents the review's findings that are expected to help researchers and practitioners to understand the challenges involved in using Scrum for GSD projects and the strategies available to deal with them.

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Using Scrum in Global Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

Hossain

Babar

Paik

2009

2009 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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“…SOCIAL SOFTWARE "Social software is a general term encompassing a set of tools and applications that enable group interaction and computer-mediated communication" [17]. Today, the trend of growth in the usage of social software in different platforms is increasing rapidly.…”

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“…Some of these have been mentioned in [15], listing the following characteristics: Weak Ties (allow spontaneous creation of contacts between non-predetermined individuals [19]), Social Production (Enable innovative and unexpected contributions and feedback regardless of geographical location [17] [1]), Egalitarianism (The maximization of participation through the role of trust and the equal rights that the users have to contribute to eventually reach the best practice [19]), Mutual Service Provisioning (The transformation of the organization's model from a oneway service system to a service-exchange system [19]. This results in the customer having a say in the design of the products and services they receive).…”

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A Socially Driven, Goal-Oriented Approach to Business Process Management

Rangiha¹,

Karakostas²

2013

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Abstract-Over the recent years, there has been much discussion about the concept of Social Business Process Management (SBPM) and how it is able to overcome some of the limitations of the traditional BPM systems. This paper aims to address gaps in social BPM research by working towards a goaldriven SBPM meta-model that seamlessly integrate the process design and enactment stages. This approach also makes use of a process recommendation system to guide the activities of the users based on their social behavior and social goals. We argue that this approach will lead to truly social driven process enactment environments.

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“…There is growing interest in applying agile practices in GSD projects to leverage the combined advantages of both approaches [3]. But project stockholder distribution in GSD projects is often characterized by temporal, geographical and socio-cultural distance and creates a number of challenges that may impact on project communication, coordination and collaboration processes [4]. Using agile practices in GSD projects may also exacerbate risks as agile practices are based on the philosophy of close, frequent and collocated collaboration [2].…”

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“…In addition, some GSD project contextual factors, for example, collaboration modes, increased number of sites, a large number of project personnel, lack of tool support etc., may also impact on project communication and collaboration processes and restricts the use of agile practices. Thus, some researchers [4] argue that the question of using agile practices in a distributed setting is still open to debate. Despite a number of risks when using agile practices in GSD, we found a few instances of success in the literature when some agile practices were used by global teams [5].…”

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Risk Identification and Mitigation Processes for Using Scrum in Global Software Development: A Conceptual Framework

Hossain

Babar

Paik

et al. 2009

2009 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference

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Abstract-There is growing interest in applying agile practices in Global Software Development (GSD) projects. But project stakeholder distribution in GSD creates a number of challenges that make it difficult to use some agile practices. Moreover, little is known about what the key challenges or risks are, and how GSD project mangers deal with these risks while using agile practices. We conduct a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) following existing guidelines to identify primary papers that discuss the use of Scrum practices in GSD projects. We identify key challenges, due to global project distribution, that restrict the use of Scrum and explore the strategies used by project managers to deal with these challenges. Our findings are consolidated into a conceptual framework and we discuss various elements of this framework. This research is relevant to project managers who are seeking ways to use Scrum in their globally distributed projects.

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Incorporating social software into distributed agile development environments

Cited by 18 publications

References 19 publications

Using Scrum in Global Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

Using Scrum in Global Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

A Socially Driven, Goal-Oriented Approach to Business Process Management

Risk Identification and Mitigation Processes for Using Scrum in Global Software Development: A Conceptual Framework

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