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System design and development methods need to be contextualized to the specific needs. Most developing countries are characterized by low economies and infrastructure, complex and heterogeneous culture. In these countries software development is characterized by big differences in education and livelihood. Culture has impacts in ICT development and use. Discount usability methods are lightweight methods...
User centered design (UCD) provides principles and activities for improving usability. However, traditional UCD methods lack considering the context of users in low income, culturally diverse settings and where Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development is at its infant stage. Software development in low and medium income countries like Ethiopia is characterized by big difference in...
This paper presents the results of a comprehensive literature survey and a web based survey on the use of Scrum in offshore software development (OSD) in Sri Lankan context. The trend in the recent software development industry is to move towards OSD. Issues and challenges related to OSD have to be solved to gain success. Scrum has gained a significant attention due to its flexible approach to managing...
Projects often consist with members with different values that may cause conflicts within the team causing decrease in members' motivation, involvement, and cohesiveness. In our experiences with off shoring Japanese software development projects to China, we were having difficulties with low quality deliverables and high turnover rate of Chinese members because of social differences. Our attempts...
This paper discusses the challenges and strategies of applying agile methodology in an academic environment. Bothcultural implications and quantitative results are discussed. The journey shared provides insights for non-software industries on how agile is not a set of rules with rigid tools, rather, it is a philosophy with a need to understand the intent of the tools in order to identify the appropriate...
We describe our experience of training a remotely located team of developers and testers to prepare and execute performance tests. The team is located in India. The lead performance engineer and the test project manager are based in New Jersey. The team members had little or no prior experience of performance testing. We describe how we overcame cultural differences and a large time difference to...
The authors describe BabyCenter.com's four-year journey from chaos to a relatively mature agile organization. From engineering teams tasked with more projects than developers, delivery dates set long before projects were scoped or staffed, and multitudinous business stakeholders deluging team members with new project requests, each more urgent than the previous, the team evolved into scrum sprints...
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