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Collaborative Team Management in Agile and Distributed Development Environments

Authors:
Nohsam Park
Jonghyun Jang

Keywords: Collaborative Team; Team Management; Agile; Distributed software development; Software Engineering

Abstract:
The inherent nature of software engineering is collaboration. Recently software engineering practices have seen many agile methods, and distributed collaboration in geographically distant environment. In this paper, we propose the methods to manage the collaborative team for this changing environment. Collaborative team management skills in agile requires the communication skills and procedures in terms of social activities in agile process. In a distributed software project, human factors are emphasized for facilitating collaboration. The importance of risk management strategy is highlighted to address the circumstantial limitations of both environments. This paper presents the basic skills for an agile and distributed project, and reports on our experience of adapting for the real Studio project settings with the concrete methods.

Pages: 341 to 346

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-367-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014