Paper Info
Title
Can Agile Software Tools Bring the Benefits of a Task Board to Globally Distributed Teams?
Abstract
Software-based tooling has become an essential part of globally disitrbuted software development. In this study we focus on the usage of such tools and task boards in particular. We investigate the deployment of these tools through a field research in 4 different companies that feature agile and globally distributed development teams. We interviewed a total of 15 developers and concluded that the paper-based task board currently still has many advantages when compared to its software-based solution. Our findings indicate that the majority of the investigated companies that use the agile method Scrum also work with a software tool to support Scrum. While distributed teams use a software only approach, a large portion of collocated teams we studied utilize a combination of a paper based task board and the archiving and integration properties of the software solution. We reflect on these findings through the lens of media synchronicity theory and conclude that this theory is useful for explaining the current use and future development of software tools to support agile globally distributed development teams.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-40951-6_10
ADVANCES IN GLOBAL SOURCING: MODELS, GOVERNANCE, AND RELATIONSHIPS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Distributed Software Development,Scrum,Task Board
Personal software process,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Package development process,Lean software development,Agile software development,Software development process,Empirical process (process control model),Engineering,Software construction,Software development
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
163
1865-1348
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.53
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christiaan P. Katsma1204.55
chintan amrit216019.11
jos van hillegersberg364267.00
Klaas Sikkel416718.19