TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed agile development
T2 - 10th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, XP 2009
AU - Korkala, Mikko
AU - Pikkarainen, Minna
AU - Conboy, Kieran
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The highly collaborative nature of software development emphasizes the importance of efficient communication. Agile methodologies further accentuate its importance. The importance of communication is further exacerbated in distributed environments due to temporal, geographical and cultural distances. Despite this, little is known about communication in distributed agile development. This results from the case study described in this paper suggest that the efficiency of customer communication is dependent on the nature of the actual customer relationship and the organizational policies. Weak customer relationship and deliberate information hiding may result in inefficient communication and reduced efficiency of the communication media. Thus, in order to enable meaningful communication, establishing an efficient customer relationship can be considered paramount.
AB - The highly collaborative nature of software development emphasizes the importance of efficient communication. Agile methodologies further accentuate its importance. The importance of communication is further exacerbated in distributed environments due to temporal, geographical and cultural distances. Despite this, little is known about communication in distributed agile development. This results from the case study described in this paper suggest that the efficiency of customer communication is dependent on the nature of the actual customer relationship and the organizational policies. Weak customer relationship and deliberate information hiding may result in inefficient communication and reduced efficiency of the communication media. Thus, in order to enable meaningful communication, establishing an efficient customer relationship can be considered paramount.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/66749157372
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_21
M3 - Conference Publication
SN - 9783642018527
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 161
EP - 167
BT - Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming - 10th International Conference, XP 2009, Proceedings
PB - Springer-Verlag
Y2 - 25 May 2009 through 29 May 2009
ER -