Scaling Agile Beyond Organizational Boundaries : Coordination Challenges in Software Ecosystems
| Autor: | Helena Holmström Olsson, Jan Bosch, Iris Figalist, Christoph Elsner |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Process management
business.industry Computer science Software ecosystem 05 social sciences 020207 software engineering Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Scaling agile Software Deliverable Order (exchange) Software ecosystems Scale (social sciences) Teknik och teknologier 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Engineering and Technology Large-scale agile software development business Inter-team coordination 050203 business & management Agile software development |
| Zdroj: | Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ISBN: 9783030190330 XP |
| Popis: | The shift from sequential to agile software development originates from relatively small and co-located teams but soon gained prominence in larger organizations. How to apply and scale agile practices to fit the needs of larger projects has been studied to quite an extent in previous research. However, scaling agile beyond organizational boundaries, for instance in a software ecosystem context, raises additional challenges that existing studies and approaches do not yet investigate or address in great detail. For that reason, we conducted a case study in two software ecosystems that comprise several agile actors from different organizations and, thereby, scale development across organizational boundaries, in order to elaborate and understand their coordination challenges. Our results indicate that most of the identified challenges are caused by long communication paths and a lack of established processes to facilitate these paths. As a result, the participants in our study, among others, experience insufficient responsivity, insufficient communication of prioritizations and deliverables, and alterations or loss of information. As a consequence, agile practices need to be extended to fit the identified needs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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