Identifying Critical Areas for Improvement in Agile Multi-site Co-development

Raoul Vallon, Klaus Bayrhammer, Stefan Strobl, Mario Bernhart, Thomas Grechenig

2013

Abstract

Agile processes potentially ease distributed software development by demanding regular communication and self-management of virtual team members. However, being designed for collocated teams, extensions to the regular process need to be made. We investigate critical areas of improvement based on a case of distributed Scrum involving two unaffiliated Austrian IT organizations that collaborate to build software. We identified eight critical areas for improvement originating from interviews, retrospective meetings and an in-depth case analysis. Key suggestions for practice include the establishment of long-lived single-site Scrum teams and the application of Behavior Driven Development (BDD) to make implicit requirement knowledge explicit and transparent to all of the distributed parties.

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Vallon R., Bayrhammer K., Strobl S., Bernhart M. and Grechenig T. (2013). Identifying Critical Areas for Improvement in Agile Multi-site Co-development . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8565-62-4, pages 165-172. DOI: 10.5220/0004446501650172


in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase13,
author={Raoul Vallon and Klaus Bayrhammer and Stefan Strobl and Mario Bernhart and Thomas Grechenig},
title={Identifying Critical Areas for Improvement in Agile Multi-site Co-development},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2013},
pages={165-172},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004446501650172},
isbn={978-989-8565-62-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Identifying Critical Areas for Improvement in Agile Multi-site Co-development
SN - 978-989-8565-62-4
AU - Vallon R.
AU - Bayrhammer K.
AU - Strobl S.
AU - Bernhart M.
AU - Grechenig T.
PY - 2013
SP - 165
EP - 172
DO - 10.5220/0004446501650172