Studying communication in agile software development: a research framework and pilot study

Authors:
Tuomas Niinimäki;Arttu Piri;Peitsa Hynninen;Casper Lassenius
Affiliations:
Helsinki University of Technology;Helsinki University of Technology;Helsinki University of Technology;Helsinki University of Technology
Venue:
Proceedings of the ICMI-MLMI '09 Workshop on Multimodal Sensor-Based Systems and Mobile Phones for Social Computing
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Agile software development practices have gained significant importance during last few years as a methodology for implementing software projects. At the same time, software businesses have started to exploit the potential of global software development, most commonly to lower development costs and to access larger pools of competent labor. Global software development has proven to be difficult to implement efficiently, and while several different methods and practices have been proposed, many challenges, most of which are related to communication, still remain. In this paper, we describe a research design for studying communication in agile software development projects. The goal is to evaluate various data collection methods and analysis methods for agile software project research, and ultimately apply these methods in implementing more comprehensive research project on using agile development practices in global software development projects.