Scaling agile methods

Reifer, Donald J.; Maurer, Frank; Erdogmus, Hakan

doi:10.1109/ms.2003.1207448

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“…The findings presented here support previous research suggesting that agile methods can be scaled to large offshore enterprise software development programmes (Reifer et al, 2003) and used in globally distributed software development settings (Ramesh et al, 2006). A primary function within the product owner role is to communicate customer needs to software team members, and the negative impact on project outcomes of inadequate customer availability has been highlighted elsewhere (Hoda et al, 2011).…”

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confidence: 84%

How product owner teams scale agile methods to large distributed enterprises

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2014

Empir Software Eng

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Software development teams in large scale offshore enterprise development programmes are often under intense pressure to deliver high quality software within challenging time contraints. Project failures can attract adverse publicity and damage corporate reputations. Agile methods have been advocated to reduce project risks, improving both productivity and product quality. This article uses practitioner descriptions of agile method tailoring to explore large scale offshore enterprise development programmes with a focus on product owner role tailoring, where the product owner identifies and prioritises customer requirements. In globalised projects, the product owner must reconcile competing business interests, whilst generating and then prioritising large numbers of requirements for numerous development teams. The study comprises eight international companies, based in London, Bangalore and Delhi. Interviews with 46 practitioners were conducted between February 2010 and May 2012. Grounded theory was used to identify that product owners form into teams. The main contribution of this research is to describe the nine product owner team functions identified: groom, prioritiser, release master, technical architect, governor, communicator, traveller, intermediary and risk assessor. These product owner functions arbitrate between conflicting customer requirements, approve release schedules, disseminate architectural design decisions, provide technical governance and propogate information across teams. The functions identified in this research are mapped to a scrum of scrums process, and a taxonomy of the functions shows how focusing on either decision-making or information dissemination in each helps to tailor agile methods to large scale offshore enterprise development programmes.Keywords agile software development · scrum · large scale offshore enterprise development programmes · product owner · product owner teams · grounded theory.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%

How product owner teams scale agile methods to large distributed enterprises

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2014

Empir Software Eng

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“…The findings presented here support previous research that suggests agile methods can be scaled to large projects [34] and used in distributed software development settings [35]. The closest context to our study was presented in [36].…”

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confidence: 89%

Agile Method Tailoring in Distributed Enterprises: Product Owner Teams

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2013

2013 IEEE 8th International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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“…In recent years, several authors have identified the need to scale the agile concept to the enterprise level (Kettunen and Laanti, 2008;Reifer et al, 2003). Leffingwell (2007), for example, documented a set of seven practices to complement the practices that are common to agile methods such as Scrum, XP and DSDM (see Table 1).…”

Section: Enterprise Agilementioning

confidence: 99%