Investigating an ‘Agile-Rigid’ Approach in Globally Distributed Requirements Analysis

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Article

Language

eng

Publication Date

2007

Publisher

Association for Information Systems

Source Publication

PACIS 2007 Proceedings

Abstract

The global software development environment brings with itself abundant business opportunities as well as challenges in terms of coordination, communication and control. Recent years have also witnessed the growth of the agile movement. To address the global software development challenges there is a need to combine the flexibility offered by the growing agile development approaches with the rigidity offered by the traditional plan-based approaches. This paper reports an exploratory quasi-experimental study, which investigates the performance of requirements analysis projects in an ‘agile-rigid’ distributed environment. The study yields several interesting conclusions that can assist organizations in managing their global software projects more effectively. Our experiment indicates that project monitoring and control, project communication, and process facilitation between peer teams significantly influence the success of such projects. Creation of an agile-rigid environment can help organizations mitigate various risks inherent in globally distributed software development.

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PACIS 2007 Proceedings. 12 (2007). Publisher link.

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