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Coordination Strategies: Beyond Scrum | Part 3
In the previous post, we discuss different strategies that are imperative in successful implementation of Scrum process model in the GSD context. In this post, we take this discussion further by introducing few strategies that are originated from other disciplines than software development; however, can have positive impact on the LFDS. (read more)
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Coordination Strategies: On Successful Implementation of Global Software Development using Large-scale Fully Distributed Scrum| Part 2
In the previous post, we discussed the motivation behind employing various coordination strategies while using LFDS in GSD context. In this post, we discuss several intra- and inter-team coordination strategies to successfully implement LFDS to alleviate the impediments incurred by the GSD. Two primary aspects – “scaling” and “distribution” of Scrum are the focus of these strategies. (read more)
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Coordination Strategies: On Successful Implementation of Global Software Development using Large-scale Fully Distributed Scrum | Part 1
Software engineering is evolving every day to address the ever increasing growth of system’s complexity and size along with the application domains and level of interactions with the other systems. In current era of globalization, with the intention of the increase in productivity and resource utilization, large-scale global software development (GSD) is a reality. However, it is known that the successful implementation of large-scale GSD using traditional distributed development process is quite difficult. The consistently increasing popularity of agile software development approaches is the result of their ideology for reducing complexity and focusing strongly on coordination, collaboration and communication. It makes the adaptation of agile methodology, such as- Scrum an obvious choice in the GSD context.