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Transition from Plan-Driven to Agile: An Action Research

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2016)

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Nowadays, many individuals and teams involved on projects are already using agile development techniques as part of their daily work. However, we have much less experience in how to scale and manage agile practices in distributed software development. At this level, there is an increasing need to standardize best practices to avoid reinvention and miscommunication across artifacts and processes. So, the emerging growth of frameworks i.e.; Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) in industry requires an academic attention because SAFe® does not cover all aspects of agility required in a distributed environment context. Early adopter of SAFe® also reported that, geographically distributed teams experience lower productivity due to lack of alignment and solid program execution. On the other hand, Global Teaming Model (GTM) places particular emphasis on the organization and management of globally distributed development teams, it does not specify how to develop software using Agile and Lean principles. Furthermore, the GTM recommended practices are normative, and do not prescribe how to implement the practice. Thus, we hypothesize that combining SAFe® practices, together with GTM recommendations will provide practitioners with a framework of implementable practices.

Supervisor: Dr. John Noll, Research Fellow, Lero–the Irish Software Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland; john.noll@lero.ie

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I would like to thanks Dr. Sarah Beecham, Senior Research Fellow, Lero. This work was supported, in part, by Science Foundation Ireland grants 10/CE/I1855 and 13/RC/2094 to Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre (www.lero.ie).

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  1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Jedlitschka

  3. and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Anh Nguyen Duc

  4. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Felderer

  5. Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Japan

    Sousuke Amasaki

  6. Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

    Tommi Mikkonen

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Razzak, M.A. (2016). Transition from Plan-Driven to Agile: An Action Research. In: Abrahamsson, P., Jedlitschka, A., Nguyen Duc, A., Felderer, M., Amasaki, S., Mikkonen, T. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10027. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_64

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