Virtual by Design: How a Work Environment can Support Agile Distributed Software Development
Even though agile methods have been flourishing in the last decades, their implementation in (globally) distributed arrangements still presents hard challenges. Due to this tension, practices are either modified or added to compensate with the additional control required by the setup. In this paper, we present a case study that, by embracing the characteristics of distributed development, managed to incrementally design a process that does not compromise the foundations of the agile philosophy. We show how a virtual work environment has been crafted by continuously improving practices and carefully selecting technologies to allow each team member of the development team to fully participate regardless of the actual physical location. Aware of the single nature limitation of the reported case, we present extensive information to frame the context allowing meaningful comparisons by researchers and providing concrete examples for practitioners.
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15:45 20mResearch paper | On Developers' Personality in Large-scale Distributed Projects: The Case of the Apache Ecosystem ICGSE 2018 Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Giuseppe Iaffaldano University of Bari, Filippo Lanubile University of Bari, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University DOI Pre-print | ||
16:05 20mResearch paper | Virtual by Design: How a Work Environment can Support Agile Distributed Software Development ICGSE 2018 Pernille Lous IT University of Copenhagen, Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, Christian Bo Michelsen IT University of Copenhagen, Yvonne Dittrich IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Marco Kuhrmann Clausthal University of Technology, Allan Ebdrup Debitoor | ||
16:25 20mResearch paper | Team Resilience in Distributed Student Projects ICGSE 2018 Igor Cavrak University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Ivana Bosnić University of Zagreb | ||
16:45 20mResearch paper | Scaling Agile across the Global Organization: An Early Stage Industrial SAFe Self-Assessment ICGSE 2018 Mohammad Abdur Razzak Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ita Richardson Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, John Noll University of East London, and Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre, Clodagh Nic Canna Ocuco Ltd, Sarah Beecham Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick | ||
17:05 10mTalk | Questions and answers ICGSE 2018 |