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Title FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED SCRUM

Author(s) WARDAH NAEEM AWAN

Abstract Distributive and Global Software Development (GSD) is the latest on-going trend in software development industry. Global Software Development is the development that is distributed among multiple locations that are separated by nationwide or international boundaries. The COVID-19 Pandemic of 2019 and 2020 has enforced development teams to work in a more distributive manner. There is an emerging concern of using agile practices in GSD projects to get the mutual benefits of both distributive and agile methods. Scrum, as an agile most known methodology, is currently admired by many software development teams. According to survey the scrum method of agile software development is used over by 89% of agile development teams. Scrum is typically considered to be productive for small-scale projects with co-located teams because Scrum teams are self-organized and enabled on great team collaboration and communication. While, the project stakeholders in GSD projects are usually distributed by time-based, geographic and social and cultural distances that results the generation a numerous challenge or risks that might effect on teams communication and collaboration process. Therefore, we were aimed to identify the challenges confronted by distributed scrum teams and the mitigation strategies adopted by distributed scrum teams to overcome the confronted challenges. We conducted a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) by following Kitchenham guidelines to identify the challenges that limit the use of Scrum in GSD and to explore the mitigation strategies adopted by practitioners to resolve the challenges. To validate our review findings, we conducted an industrial survey of 305 practitioners. The results of our study are consolidated into a research framework. The framework represents current best practices and recommendations to mitigate the identified distributed scrum challenges and is validated by five distributed scrum experts. Results of the expert review were found supportive, reflecting that the framework will help the stakeholders deliver sustainable products by effectively mitigating the identified challenges.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Engineering and Computer Science

Department Engineering

Language English

Publication Date 2022-01-04

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