Uma atualização de um mapeamento sistemático sobre desenvolvimento ágil para equipes distribuídas: resultados preliminares e boas práticas em evidência

Abstract

In the rise in the last decade, Global Software Development, which has as its concept the distribution of its development processes, has been investigated by the industry and academia, in order to increase the base of the best experiences and resources used in distributed projects. In another context, Agile Development has become one of the most used software development methodologies in the industry. This method has come up with some new concepts, such as frequent deliveries, better communication, special focus on coding, among others. In the literature new challenges are pointed out in the adoption of agile in GSD projects because the agile practices are based on informal communication and of little documentation, it was defined for a co-located environment whereas the GSD needs a clear way of disseminating knowledge supported by tools and by nature is distributed. However, the evidence that agile development in global development contexts, despite the apparent dichotomy, has been successful with its agile practices supported by synchronous and asynchronous communication tools. This work aimed to identify, analyze and synthesize the studies on agile methods and their practices in the context of GSD, through an update of Systematic Mapping on agile development for distributed teams, in this way, to make a preliminary explanation of the results and to show a good practice. The results were addressed to the research questions raised in the initial phase of the work, it was possible to draw a parallel between the information synthesized in the previous mapping about the challenges, practices, tools and agile methods in the context of GSD with this extension, in continuity. Finally, based on the results, it was possible to verify the most frequently used practices during the period 2008 to 2018, allowing to highlight a set of good practices. This work may benefit future researchers and professionals in this area, with the results of updating the mapping data, can serve as a theoretical basis for processes of an agile global software development model (AGSD) focused on good agile practices in the context of GSD, such as to the exploration of other research questions as well.