Coordination Strategies: On Successful Implementation of Global Software Development using Large-scale Fully Distributed Scrum | Part 1

Software engineering is evolving every day to address the ever increasing growth of system’s complexity and size along with the application domains and level of interactions with the other systems. In current era of globalization, with the intention of the increase in productivity and resource utilization, large-scale global software development (GSD) is a reality. However, it is known that the successful implementation of large-scale GSD using traditional distributed development process is quite difficult. The consistently increasing popularity of agile software development approaches is the result of their ideology for reducing complexity and focusing strongly on coordination, collaboration and communication. It makes the adaptation of agile methodology, such as- Scrum an obvious choice in the GSD context.

However, inherently, Scrum is only meant for local small teams and employing it to the large-scale GSD is a paradigm shift for this agile process. Therefore, this fact necessitate a pragmatic derivation of coordination strategies or best practices to successfully implement Scrum framework in the large-scale GSD context. In this post, we start we defining several concepts relevant for this topic. Afterwards, we provide the rational behind these strategies in successful implementation of GSD powered by LFDS. (read more)