Towards Scrum Based Agile Framework for Global Software Development Teams

SHAGUFTA SHAFIQ; YASER HAFEEZ; SADIA ALI; NAILA IQBAL; MUHAMMAD JAMAL

doi:10.22581/muet1982.1904.11

Author(s)

SHAGUFTA SHAFIQ University Institute of Information Technology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

YASER HAFEEZ University Institute of Information Technology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

SADIA ALI University Institute of Information Technology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

NAILA IQBAL University Institute of Information Technology, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

MUHAMMAD JAMAL Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Abstract

Organizations are moving their workforce to guarantee matters of trade and profit where accounts are expected to be less expensive and provide better quality products with the accessibility of skilled labor. With the evident benefits, distributed teams often face challenges with reliable and efficient communicationcoordination patterns that lead towards project failure. In the rapidly growing software industry, it becomes critical for any business to have better management activities to acquire right processes and practices. Agile methods are considered as a remedy for mitigating distributed teams' challenges, with their consistent focus on communication. Here, we intend to propose a tailored Scrum based solution for distributed teams that empowers anticipated communication and coordination throughout the development process. In the first phase of framework development we have evaluated the state of agile practices from both literature and industry; based on collected evidence and suggestive guidelines a scrum based agile framework was formulated. The Scrum is a project management method inAgile Methods family. Scrum is an iterative process that asks for incremental development of the product, includes cross functional development and testing teams. Evaluation results show that the proposed framework contributes positively to improve development process quality. We have performed theoretical as well as empirical evaluation to validate proposed framework. We have eight project managing rising aspects in DSD (Distributed Software Development) to evaluate the proposed framework.

Publication Details

Page(s) 979-998

DOI 10.22581/muet1982.1904.11

Published Journal: Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Year: 2019

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Keywords

distributed software development, distributed software development, distributed Software Development, distributed Software Development, Distributed Scrum, agile practices, Scrum of scrums Global Software Development