Navigating social debt and its link with technical debt in large-scale agile software development projects

Agile methodologies have emerged as transformative paradigms in the ever-evolving software development landscape, emphasizing iterative development, customer collaboration, and adaptability. As the scope and complexity of projects and organizations expand, applying agile principles within the contex...

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Veröffentlicht in:Software quality journal Jg. 32; H. 4; S. 1581 - 1613
Hauptverfasser: Saeeda, Hina, Ovais Ahmad, Muhammad, Gustavsson, Tomas
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Springer US 01.12.2024
Springer Nature B.V
Schlagworte:
5G mobile communication
Agile
Business support
Collaboration
Compilers
Computer Science
Cooperation
Data Structures and Information Theory
Datavetenskap
Debt
Informatik
Information Systems
Interpreters
Large-scale agile development challenges
Large-scale scale development
Non-technical debt
Operating Systems
Programming Languages
Scrum
Secure solutions
Social debt
Software development
Software engineering
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
Software project management
Technical debt
Telecom sector
Telecommunications
Secure solutions
5G
Non-technical debt
Telecom sector
Technical debt
Agile
Large-scale scale development
Scrum
Business support
Social debt
Large-scale agile development challenges
Software project management
ISSN:0963-9314, 1573-1367, 1573-1367
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Zusammenfassung:Agile methodologies have emerged as transformative paradigms in the ever-evolving software development landscape, emphasizing iterative development, customer collaboration, and adaptability. As the scope and complexity of projects and organizations expand, applying agile principles within the context of Large-Scale Agile Development (LSAD) encounters distinctive challenges. The majority of challenges encountered in LSAD, technical and non-technical, are attributed to the accrual of social debt. However, a conspicuous gap remains in understanding and addressing social debt in LSAD. This study aims to fill this void by investigating social debt in LSAD through an in-depth industrial case study with a leading Nordic company specializing in telecommunications software and services and focusing on producing secure 5G network solutions. The study investigates the causes of LSAD’s social debt and examines its impacts on secure 5G telecom software development. By addressing these objectives, this research sheds light on a critical aspect of LSAD’s social debt, caused by 3C challenges(communication, coordination and collaboration), social confines challenges, community smells challenges, and organisational social challenges in the telecom sector that have been underrepresented in the existing literature.
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ISSN:0963-9314
1573-1367
1573-1367
DOI:10.1007/s11219-024-09688-y