Inter-team coordination in large-scale agile development

Abstract

We draw on Organizational Discontinuity Theory (ODT) to identify factors that increase communication and coordination problems between teams working on large software development projects. ODT posits that faced with a disruption in the expected flow of communication, called a discontinuity, individuals must make sense of the disruption to address the problem. They may be motivated to pay more attention to the situation and consider alternative actions to deal with the discontinuity, leading to the emergence of continuities, which are new behaviors, group practices and expectations. Continuities reduce or eliminate the attention and effort required to understand and manage the situation associated with problematic discontinuities. We propose a mixed-method study based on this model to examine the effects of discontinuities and the development of continuities on interteam coordination in large-scale agile software development. CCS Concepts• Software and its engineering➝Agile software development • Software and its engineering➝Programming teams

A Review of Scaling Agile Methods in Large Software Development

“…One of the main important differences between DAD and other scaling Agile methods is that DAD is not prescribed method [11]. Other methods such as SAFe are prescribed and the solutions they offer are usually limited to restructuring the SCRUM methodology by combining it with traditional software development methodologies in order to resolve those issues [11], [30]. There are a few advantages that can be highlighted in DAD.…”