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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

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