Title :
Upgrading distributed agile development
Author :
Hamid, Aisha Mohammed Elhassan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
Abstract :
Agile software development teams are normally collocated a matter that enhances the implementation of its principles. In the growing world of software industry it is better to get benefit of markets, skills and reduced cost which are distributed all over the world. This can be achieved by upgrading the practices of agile software development to be in harmony with distributed software development and keeping its intrinsic values from being destroyed or even distorted in spite of geographical barriers, different cultures and different time zones. This paper studies an approach based on sequential development of the software to help in dealing with the challenges that face agile methodology when it is combined with distributed software development.
Keywords :
cultural aspects; software development management; agile software development teams; cultures; distributed software development; geographical barriers; software development practices upgrade; software industry; time zones; Collaboration; Documentation; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Face; Productivity; Software; Agile; Defect density; Distributed development; Productivity; Shifts;
Conference_Titel :
Computing, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICCEEE), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Khartoum
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6231-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCEEE.2013.6634027