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DEPENDENCY FORECASTING IN THE DISTRIBUTED AGILE ORGANIZATION.

The article focuses on task coordination in globally distributed system development (GDSD). The authors argue that agile project management of GDSD is challenging. Constant communications is a necessity especially in projects that have a long duration or involve many software developers. The auth...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 10; pp. 55 - 57
Main Authors: WAGSTROM, PATRICK, HERBSLEB, JAMES
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2006
Subjects:
Computer software development
Project management
Management
Business communication
Cooperation
International business enterprises
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on task coordination in globally distributed system development (GDSD). The authors argue that agile project management of GDSD is challenging. Constant communications is a necessity especially in projects that have a long duration or involve many software developers. The authors describe an automated method in order to determine who should be included in communications on specific aspects of a project. Instead of relying on project management staff to constantly redraw communications "maps," the authors propose an automated process that examines who is working on specific areas of the software's code.