Agile software development: Impacts and challenges within distributed teams

Abstract

In agile software development, rapid tasks, which are called the story and collaboration between team members are a necessary requirement. To achieve this, teams need to adhere steps such as active meetings, face-to-face meetings, continuous meetings and cooperation between the work team. However, Separation through geographical distance, time zones, and culture has an influence on the ability of members of a distributed team to work with each other as one team in distributed software development. We determined that trust among members of a distributed team is critical for bridging spatial, behavioral, and cultural barriers so that they can collaborate as one team. In this paper, we discuss the obstacles and challenges of using Agile in a distributed team’s environment and recommend a proposed solution of four steps and procedures to solve these issues. The validation of the proposed solution is done by using a survey and the results indicate that communication efficiency has positive effects and found encouraging effects on functionality, quality, and on-budget completion.