CONTEXT: Communication, collaboration and coordination are key enablers of software
development and even more so in agile methods. The physical environment of the …

Effective coordination is the key to successful agile teams. They rely on frequent interactions
and mutual adjustment to manage dependencies between activities, which traditionally has …

Agile methodologies have been widely used in software development for more than a
decade now. They have shown promising results to the persisting software crisis, defined as …

Global software development (GSD) is gaining ever more relevance. Although
communication is key in the exchange of information between team members, multi-site …

Coordination is an important but challenging success factor in large-scale software
development. Large-scale is particularly demanding because it involves several teams, and …

Agile methods prefer team members to be collocated to promote effective communication
between team members. Effective communication is crucial for distributed Agile software …

Through inward perceptions, we intuitively expect distributed software development to
increase the risks associated with achieving cost, schedule, and quality goals. To compound …

Large-scale software engineering is a collaborative effort where teams need to
communicate to develop software products. Managers face the challenge of how to organise …

Agile software development performance depends on active communication. Active
communication is an arduous task when agile teams are geographically distributed. Agile …

Coordination of teams is critical when managing large programmes that involve multiple
teams. In large-scale software development, work is carried out simultaneously by many …