NDLI: Context-aware task allocation for distributed agile team

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Jun Lin
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Comput. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore (Jun Lin)
Abstract	The philosophy of Agile software development advocates the spirit of open discussion and coordination among team members to adapt to incremental changes encountered during the process. Based on our observations from 20 agile student development teams over an 8-week study in Beihang University, China, we found that the task allocation strategy as a result of following the Agile process heavily depends on the experience of the users, and cannot be guaranteed to result in efficient utilization of team resources. In this research, we propose a context-aware task allocation decision support system that balances the considerations for quality and timeliness to improve the overall utility derived from an agile software development project.We formulate the agile process as a distributed constraint optimization problem, and propose a technology framework that assesses individual developers' situations based on data collected from a Scrum-based agile process, and helps individual developers make situation-aware decisions on which tasks from the backlog to select in real-time. Preliminary analysis and simulation results show that it can achieve close to optimally efficient utilization of the developers' collective capacity. We plan to build the framework into a computer-supported collaborative development platform and refine the method through more realistic projects.
Starting Page	758
Ending Page	761
File Size	333327
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479902156
DOI	10.1109/ASE.2013.6693151
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-11-11
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Resource management Software Variable speed drives Planning Educational institutions Indexes Delays project management distributed agile task allocation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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