Prioritizing challenges of agile process in distributed software development environment using analytic hierarchy process

Software organizations are increasingly combining agile methodologies and distributed software development (DSD) for efficiently and effectively built software products. There are numerous challenges associated with scaling agile methods in a distributed environment. Our study is intended to explore...

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Vydáno v:Journal of software : evolution and process Ročník 30; číslo 11
Hlavní autoři: Gerardo, Canfora, Shameem, Mohammad, Kumar, Rakesh Ranjan, Kumar, Chiranjeev, Chandra, Bibhas, Khan, Arif Ali
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Chichester Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2018
Témata:
agile development
AHP
Analytic hierarchy process
Categories
challenges
distributed software development
Literature reviews
Management
multiple‐criteria decision making
Organizations
Scaling
Software development
Software development tools
ISSN:2047-7473, 2047-7481
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Shrnutí:Software organizations are increasingly combining agile methodologies and distributed software development (DSD) for efficiently and effectively built software products. There are numerous challenges associated with scaling agile methods in a distributed environment. Our study is intended to explore and prioritize the challenges for scaling agile practices in the DSD environment. This study was divided into 3 stages. In the first stage, 22 challenges were identified from literature review and grouped into 4 categories: management, team, technology, and process based on discussion with experts. In the second stage, an online questionnaire study was conducted to validate the identified challenges. Finally, analytic hierarchy process method was used to prioritize challenges and their categories based on their relative importance. The results highlighted that management is a most significant category as compared with the other categories. Similarly, lack of management commitments, lack of effective communication, lack of knowledge sharing, etc are identified as the most significant challenges that need to be focused by the organizations for scaling agile methodologies. On the basis of the research findings, we could conclude that the identified challenges along with their categories provide a robust framework to scale agile methodologies in the DSD environment. Investigating the challenges that negatively affect scaling of agile methodologies in the DSD environment, validating the challenges using online questionnaire survey, and prioritizing the challenges using AHP method based on their relative importance, this study provides a robust framework to scale agile methodologies in the DSD environment.
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ISSN:2047-7473
2047-7481
DOI:10.1002/smr.1979