Collaboration importance in Agile

software development3rd International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technology and

Statistics in Economy and Education (ICAICTSEE 2013)

Veselin Georgiev

UNWE, Department “Information Technologies and Communications”

Twitter: @petrovkata

Date: 06.12.2013

Contents

• What is Agile Development?

• When to use Agile Methodologies?

• Collaboration types

• Collaboration open problems and

importance

• Conclusions

What is Agile Development?

• Group of software development methods

• Iterative and Incremental development

• Maybe not methodology but Ecosystem

• Most used development method

nowadays

When to use Agile Methodologies?

• Flexible project or client

• Changing project scope or requirements

rapidly

• Needs of incremental results

• Option for regular meetings

Collaboration types (software development)

• Project management/task tracking

collaboration

• Team collaboration

• Development collaboration

Collaboration channels - open problems and

importance

• Project management/task tracking

collaboration

– Web based tracking/PM systems

– Desktop project management software

• Team collaboration

– Brainstorming and Scrum

– Conference calls/Video conference calls

– Emails

Collaboration channels - open problems and

importance

• Team collaboration

– Blogs

– Group chats

– Wiki

– Social Networks

Collaboration channels - open problems and

importance

• Development collaboration

– Version control systems

– Emails

– Tracking systems

– Chat

– Blogs

– Wiki

– Forums

Collaboration open problems

• Different sources

• Not structured data

• Collaboration analytical tools missing

• Collaborations are not used in other

projects

• Team members are lazy to fill-up enough

data/information

Conclusions

• Most important for Agile development is good

team/development collaboration

• Current available PM and collaboration tools

does not provide all needed functionality

• Social Network approach gives options for

collaboration models development and their

integration with PM and Task tracking solutions

THANK YOU!

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