Managing Commitments and Risks: Challenges in Distributed Agile Development

  • Authors:

  • Jyrki Kontio;Magnus Hoglund;Jan Ryden;Pekka Abrahamsson

  • Affiliations:

  • Helsinki University of Technology;TietoEnator;TietoEnator;VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Software development is always a challengingundertaking and it requires high commitments fromindividuals who participate in it. Software developmentoften involves new technology, challenging or unknownrequirements, and tight schedules 驴 making itparticularly prone to several types of risk. Thesechallenges are even more paramount in agiledevelopment and in distributed development, where theneed for efficient information sharing is important, yetthe distributed development makes it very difficult.This tutorial uses innovative and new learning methodsto explore and to learn about these challenges and howto deal with them. The tutorial is partially based onpresentations given by authors, but a major element inthe tutorial is the case study that is introduced and inwhich will involve all the participants. The learning inthe tutorial is strongly facilitated by participantsýdiscussions and the insights generated in concreteproblem solving situations.