A systematic literature review to identify human related challenges in globally distributed agile software development: towards a hypothetical model for scaling agile methodologies
Mohammad Shameem, Bibhas Chandra, Rakesh Ranjan Kumar, Chiranjeev Kumar · 2018
Currently, software organizations are implementing agile methodologies in global software development (GSD) because of low development cost, schedule and high quality product. However, GSD project is complex undertaken because of it distributed dimensions especially when the agile methodologies are concerned. The objective of this study is to identify the human related factors that can negatively influence agile practices in GSD organizations, and proposed a hypothetical model of the identified challenges related to the scaling agile methodologies. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method was used to identify the challenges. In the findings, a total of eleven challenges were identified using SLR. This study also reported the Critical Challenges (CChs) for scaling agile methodologies using a criterion of the challenges having a frequency ≥ 50 %. Findings reported the six out of eleven challenges as critical challenges in scaling agile methods. Based on the identified challenges, a hypothetical model was presented that is highlighted a relationship between identified challenges and the implementation of agile methodologies in GSD environment.