Author : Ramadan Moawad
CoAuthors : Lioyd Domia , Mona Kadry
Source : European Journal of Scientific Research
Date of Publication : 05/2016
Abstract :
The globalization affects many aspects in the process of industrialization
development today, one of these industries is the software development industry. Recent
years have also witnessed the growth of the agile movement and approaches. Applying the
agile approaches and practices in the global or distributed environment will lead to gain a lot
of benefits such as reduced costs, higher efficiency and better customization, on the other
hand it will face many challenges for example working in different time zones, requirements
changes, personal selection and knowledge management. In order to gain these benefits, it
should first address the challenges that will face the agile approaches in a distributed
environment. One of the main challenges is managing the requirements and its changes
during the process of distributed agile software development and the impact of managing
requirements on knowledge management between development team. Only few researches of
the many approaches and practices published in the literature, addressed the problem of
requirements changes during the development process in distributed agile development. Most
of the published researches in this context discovered based on industrial experiences and this
result in an increase of the need for combining the industry with academia within this area.
In our proposed research an approach for distributed agile development to manage
requirements and their changes, including the possible changes that have an impact on the
knowledge management. Our suggested approach works to cover the gap between the
industry and research in distributed agile development by combining the industrial practice
and academic technique. Our research aims to develop a software development approach to
enhance requirements changes management in distributed agile development.
Keywords: distributed Agile; global software development; requierments chanages;
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