Development of a framework to study communication barriers in the Distributed Agile Development environment
Kobychev, Pavel (2012)
Kobychev, Pavel
HAAGA-HELIA ammattikorkeakoulu
2012
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201204214773
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201204214773
Tiivistelmä
Agile software development is a modern iterative and incremental framework aiming at customer satisfaction through frequent delivery of the working software. It values rich interaction between all stakeholders throughout a project. However, when the stakeholders are located remotely, special actions must be taken to remove the communication barriers in order not to lose the benefits of the agile methods.
This paper attempts to create a conceptual framework for an empirical study of the communication barriers in the Distributed Agile Development environment. The proposed framework consists of a theoretical part connecting the communication barriers and the Distributed Agile Development challenges, suggestions on developing a quantitative questionnaire to study the topic and a review of the existing literature on how to overcome the communication barriers in the Distributed Agile Development environment.
The author believes that the research results will be useful for organizations deploying or planning to deploy the Distributed Agile Development and agile practitioners as a reference for a further study or as a ready made framework for a survey. However, solving part of the Distributed Agile Development challenges by enhancing the communication is very difficult and must be approached only if the distribution is unavoidable.
How to de-distribute software development project is proposed for future study.
This paper attempts to create a conceptual framework for an empirical study of the communication barriers in the Distributed Agile Development environment. The proposed framework consists of a theoretical part connecting the communication barriers and the Distributed Agile Development challenges, suggestions on developing a quantitative questionnaire to study the topic and a review of the existing literature on how to overcome the communication barriers in the Distributed Agile Development environment.
The author believes that the research results will be useful for organizations deploying or planning to deploy the Distributed Agile Development and agile practitioners as a reference for a further study or as a ready made framework for a survey. However, solving part of the Distributed Agile Development challenges by enhancing the communication is very difficult and must be approached only if the distribution is unavoidable.
How to de-distribute software development project is proposed for future study.