Agile software development has large success rate due to its benefits and promising nature
but natively where the size of the project is small. Requirement engineering (RE) is crucial …

This article is intended to serve as an introduction to this special issue on agile practices. In
doing so, we briefly survey a number of key issues that are emerging in the application of …

Given the relevance of coordination in the field of global software engineering, this work was
carried out to further understand coordination mechanisms. Specifically, we investigated …

Today, many large-scale software projects have members working from home, which has
changed the way teams coordinate work. To better understand coordination in this setting …

Current research has shown that global software development (GSD) organizations rely on
agile methods to guarantee better communication, coordination, and improved productivity …

Distributed Scrum adapts the Scrum project management framework for geographically
distributed software teams. Experimentally evaluating the effectiveness of Distributed Scrum …

Global Software Development (GSD) continues to grow substantially and it is fast becoming
the norm and fundamentally different from local Software Engineering development. Withal …

Traditional businesses face fast‐changing client needs, increased marketplace changing
aspects, and the constant appearance of new technological progressions in an increasingly …

Challenges in implementing Agile Distributed Software Development (ADSD) are well
documented. A primary challenge lies in achieving the necessary degree of cooperation and …

We report on a longitudinal case study conducted at the Italian site of a large software
company to further our understanding of how development and communication tools can be …