Agile Team Measurement to Review the Performance in Global Software Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 2015-2025
Author(s):  
Chamundeswari Arumugam ◽  
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Project Environment ◽  
Programming Software

This chapter is aimed at studying the key performance indicators of team members working in an agile project environment and in an extreme programming software development. Practitioners from six different XP projects were selected to respond to the survey measuring the performance indicators, namely, escaped defects, team member's velocity, deliverables, and extra efforts. The chapter presents a comparative view of Scrum and XP, the two renowned agile methods with their processes, methodologies, development cycles, and artifacts, while assessing the base performance indicators in XP setup. These indicators are key to any agile project in a global software development environment. The observed performance indicators were compared against the gold standard industry benchmarks along with best, average, and worst-case scenarios. Practitioners from six agile XP projects were asked to participate in the survey. Observed results best serve the practitioners to take necessary course corrections to stay in the best-case scenarios of their respective projects.

Agile Team Measurement to Review the Performance in Global Software Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Chamundeswari Arumugam ◽  
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Project Environment ◽  
Programming Software

This chapter is aimed at studying the key performance indicators of team members working in an agile project environment and in an extreme programming software development. Practitioners from six different XP projects were selected to respond to the survey measuring the performance indicators, namely, escaped defects, team member's velocity, deliverables, and extra efforts. The chapter presents a comparative view of Scrum and XP, the two renowned agile methods with their processes, methodologies, development cycles, and artifacts, while assessing the base performance indicators in XP setup. These indicators are key to any agile project in a global software development environment. The observed performance indicators were compared against the gold standard industry benchmarks along with best, average, and worst-case scenarios. Practitioners from six agile XP projects were asked to participate in the survey. Observed results best serve the practitioners to take necessary course corrections to stay in the best-case scenarios of their respective projects.

scholarly journals OntoDiSENv1: an Ontology to Support Global Software Development

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Chaves ◽  
Igor Steinmacher ◽  
Gislaine Camila Lapasini Leal ◽  
Elisa H. M. Huzita ◽  
Alberto B. Biasão
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Distributed Software ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Application Ontology

Global Software Development (GSD) brought competitive advantages to organizations, but it has also imposed some drawbacks due to the physical distribution. A critical aspect of this approach is related to communication. In order to provide the same semantic understanding about information exchanged on the environment to all team members it is necessary to minimize the ambiguity. This paper presents OntoDiSENv1, application ontology for a distributed software development environment. The goal of this ontology is support communication among geographically dispersed team members. The ontology is integrated to a contextual information dissemination model, which notifies the team members about the actions that occur on the shared workspace and can influence their work. The main contribution of OntoDiSENv1 is to support contextual information representation and processing, providing inference capability and semantic consistency of the information disseminated.

E-Mentoring in Global Software Development Teams

2013 ◽  
pp. 160-175
Author(s):  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios ◽  
Alok Mishra ◽  
Cristina Casado-Lumbreras ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Software Development Teams ◽  
Communication And Coordination ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Correct Application

Global Software Development (GSD) teams face communication and coordination problems due to spatial, temporal, and cultural separation between team members. Cultural diversity and cross-cultural management are significant issues among GSD teams. In software development projects, mentoring dramatically reduces the learning curve for novice human resources. Due to the large amount of electronic communication instruments, a remarkable number of different e-Mentoring concepts have emerged, which provides opportunity for mentoring that would not otherwise be possible. This chapter presents key success factors to enable e-Mentoring as a tool to develop a common culture in GSD scenarios. These success factors enable the correct application of mentoring programmes and the use of this to build a common culture in organizations that perform GSD.

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Decision Making Towards Efficient Team Selection in Global Software Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 1756-1775
Author(s):  
Mukta Goyal ◽  
Chetna Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Fuzzy Decision Making ◽  
P Value ◽  
Software Project ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Intuitionistic Fuzzy ◽  
Team Selection ◽  
Manual Selection

For successful completion of any software project, an efficient team is needed. This task becomes more challenging when the project is to be completed under global software development umbrella. The manual selection of team members based on some expert judgment may lead to inappropriate selection. In reality, there are hundreds of employees in an organization and a single expert may be biased towards any member. Thus, there is a need to adopt methods which consider multiple selection criteria with multiple expert views for making appropriate selection. This article uses an intuitionistic fuzzy approach to handle uncertainty in the expert's decision in multicriteria group decision making process and ranking among the finite team members. An intuitionistic fuzzy Muirhead Mean (IFMM) is used to aggregate the intuitionistic criteria's. To gain confidence between criteria and expert score relationship, the Annova test is performed. The results are promising with p value as small as 0.02 and one-tail t-test score equals to 0.0000002.

The effect of onsite-offshore work division on project cost, schedule, and quality for re-engineering projects in Indian outsourcing software industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debasisha Mishra ◽  
Biswajit Mahanty
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Model Construction ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Project Schedule ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Project Cost ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Software Development Environment ◽  
Engineering Projects

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to make an attempt to find good values of onsite–offshore team strength; number of hours of communication between business users and onsite team and between onsite and offshore team to reduce cost and improve schedule for re-engineering projects in global software development environment. Design/methodology/approach – The system dynamics technique is used for simulation model construction and policy run experimentation. The experts from Indian software outsourcing industry were consulted for model construction, validation and analysis of policy run results in both co-located and distributed software development environment. Findings – The study results show that there is a drop in the overall team productivity in outsourcing environment by considering the offshore options. But the project cost can be reduced by employing the offshore team for coding and testing work only with minimal training for imparting business knowledge. The research results show that there is a potential to save project cost by being flexible in project schedule. Research limitations/implications – The study found that there could be substantial cost saving for re-engineering projects with a loss of project schedule when an appropriate onsite–offshore combination is used. The quality and productivity drop, however, were rather small for such combinations. The cost savings are high when re-engineering work is sent to offshore location entirely after completion of requirement analysis work at onsite location and providing training to offshore team in business knowledge The research findings show that there is potential to make large cost savings by being flexible in project schedule for re-engineering projects. Practical implications – The software project manager can use the model results to divide the software team between onsite and offshore location during various phases of software development in distributed environment. Originality/value – The study is novel as there is little attempt at finding the team distribution between onsite and offshore location in global software development environment.

scholarly journals - Development of Heavy Equipment Rental System Using eXtreme Programming Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Johanes Fernandes Andry
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
System Design ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
System Development ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Time Of Application ◽  
Heavy Equipment ◽  
The Right

Many system development consultants nowadays using the XP framework (eXtreme Programming) in software development, This is based on the needs of the era where software can be completed quickly and when user software development is involved. The XP framework does not need too many team members, so it emphasizes effectiveness of work. In software development must begin with good planning to avoid patchwork (software crisis) in software development. The stage in research on the development of rental heavy equipment applications with an XP framework start from planning, designing, coding, testing and releasing software. Studies that do in this research include: literature studies, interviews, observations, document examinations. Next is do the analysis on the application made, and make documentation for system development. That was done as a system analysis and system design in the research. The selection of the right framework at the time of application development is very important, so that the application can be completed on time. The XP framework focuses more on making programs, the system design is enough with the CRC (Class Responsibility Collaborator). In the framework of XP, it always involves users during application development. Each module made by programmers that always tested by the system test section, so the applications that are made can be completed on time, suitable with user needs, and have high quality.

Assessing Effects of Media Affordances and Information Security Awareness on Knowledge Sharing in Global Software Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Greene ◽  
Inkyoung Hur ◽  
Yair Levy ◽  
Ling Wang ◽  
Keumseok Kang
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Security Awareness ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Information Security Awareness ◽  
Knowledge Sharing Behavior ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
Sharing Behavior

This study investigates the effects of media affordances and information security awareness on knowledge sharing behavior among global software development (GSD) team members. Using survey data collected from 214 GSD team members, we identify the three organizational media affordances based on prior affordance literature: awareness, searchability, and editability. Positive relationships are found between perceived media affordances and actualized media affordances. We further find that two actualized affordances, awareness and editability, have significant relationships to knowledge sharing behavior, and these relationships are moderated by awareness of information security. Additional analysis indicates that occupational culture caused by region affects some relationships among media affordances and knowledge sharing behavior. This study contributes to the media affordance literature by identifying the organizational media affordances related to knowledge sharing behavior and showing that the effects of these media affordances on knowledge sharing are moderated by users’ awareness of information security.

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