An Adaptive Agile Process Model for Global Software Development

摘要

Global software development (GSD) has established its dominance in software industry whereas agile and lean practices are also believed to be the most promising software development approaches. Fierce competition and dynamic business environment has tempted software industry to experiment agile as well as lean approaches in GSD projects. However, as lean and agile methods are primarily developed for collocated development, these methods do not consider the impact of GSD distances and this amalgamation creates some discrepancies. These methods need to be modified for GSD. In this paper, we have proposed a GSD process model based on adaptive agile and kanban approach. The proposed approach can act as a guideline to GSD practitioners for effective software development.