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The growth in popularity of Agile methods plus a dissatisfaction of Government agencies with traditional software development methods have stimulated the adoption of Agile Methods. The action research approach was used in this work to assess the implementation of a process for the Management of Agile Development Demands - whose original acronym in Portuguese is 'GeDDAS' - for a software factory in...
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 describes how scrum method was customized for outsourced e-commerce software projects. While the waterfall process was used in the past, outsourced projects experienced more delays and failures than the ones conducted in-house. To overcome such limitations, we decided to tailor the scrum method on three aspects: First, we produced a table that explains roles and responsibilities of project...
Scrum was designed to achieve a hyperproductive state where productivity increases 5-10 times over industry averages and many collocated teams have achieved this effect. The question for this paper is whether distributed, offshore teams can consistently achieve the hyperproductive state. In particular, can a team establish a localized velocity and then maintain or increase that velocity when distributing...
A software solutions company out-sourced a ground-up application build to a team of globally distributed independent consultants. The project eventually exceeded time and cost expectations and failed to deliver production ready tested software according to a planned market release window. The asserted reasons for this planned versus actual delta varied with time including failure of leadership, failure...
Elastic Path software and Luxoft present in this case study a successful distributed agile project using outsourcing (both near and off shore). Elastic Path and Luxoft are both experienced agile practitioners, which helped immensely in so far as neither client nor vendor had to learn how to do agile while trying to overcome the difficulties in implementing agile in a distributed manner. The case study...
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