Problems in Agile Global Software Engineering Projects especially within Traditionally Organised Corporations
Ingo Richter, Florian Raith, Michael Weber · 2016
Agile methods are used for different kinds of software development, even for complex and distributed projects. This leads to a mixture of traditional company organisation as well as project organisation and agile concepts, especially when agile methods are applied within traditionally organised corporations. Therefore, the main objective of this exploratory semi-structured interview study is to phrase out the occurring problems of this mixture, to describe them, to name their possible effects and to suggest potential solutions. Practitioners as well as researchers can use those information to improve their projects and to investigate possible solutions to lessen the described problems. During our study we have interviewed seven persons in six interviews who were working for five different companies in Germany. Our analysis revealed eight problems of agile global software engineering projects. Three of them are more likely and more harmful when traditionally organised corporations are involved. But one of those three problems seems solely occurring in global software engineering projects where one or more traditionally organised corporations take part.