RTDWD: real-time distributed wideband-delphi for user stories estimation

Authors:
Giovanni Aiello;Marco Alessi;Massimo Cossentino;Alfonso Urso;Giuseppe Vella
Affiliations:
Engisud S.p.A., Research and Development Lab., Palermo, Italy;Engisud S.p.A., Research and Development Lab., Palermo, Italy and Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Research and Development Lab., Palermo, Italy;Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Palermo, Italy;Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Palermo, Italy;Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Research and Development Lab., Palermo, Italy
Venue:
RISE'06 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Rapid integration of software engineering techniques
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper proposes RTDWD (Real-time Distributed Wideband-Delphi), a real-time collaborative web application for user stories estimation through the Wideband-Delphi method. RTDWD realizes, in a lightweight way, virtual meetings for a critical phase of the requirements management in distributed Agile development processes, such as Distributed eXtreme Programming. The web 2.0-based nature of RTDWD adds new communication modes to a distributed Agile development process, where a close real-time collaboration is needed but difficult to realize due to the geographic dislocation of team members. Features of RTDWD allow to take into consideration several scenarios where mobile devices (i.e. Pocket PCs and Smartphones) well substitute desktop and laptop computers. We present our experience in order to point out to the researcher community the usefulness of RTDWD and, generally, of the lightweight real-time collaboration underlining the need to introduce new technologies on practices of distributed Agile processes.