Toward successful agile requirements change management process in global software development: a client–vendor analysis. Issue 3 (1st June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kamal, Tahir; Zhang, Qinghua; Akbar, Muhammad Azeem
• Is Part Of: IET software. Volume 14:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 265
• Page End: 274
• Publication Date: 2020-06-01
• Subjects: software engineering -- management of change -- organisational aspects -- project management -- human resource management -- software development management; client–vendor-based analysis -- considered factors -- positive correlation -- investigated factors -- project management book -- human resource management -- GSD firms -- ARCM activities -- toward successful agile requirements -- management process -- global software development -- client–vendor analysis -- requirements change management -- important phase -- complicated phase -- software development process -- agile RCM process -- questionnaire survey -- practitioner participants -- 56 survey respondents; Computer software -- Periodicals; Software engineering -- Periodicals; 005.1
• DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2019.0128
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-8806

Abstract

Abstract : Requirements change management (RCM) is an important and complicated phase in the agile for the software development process. The objective of this study was to identify and analyse the factors that can positively affect the agile RCM (ARCM) process in the context of global software development (GSD). To this end, a questionnaire survey was carried out with researcher and practitioner participants working in the field of GSD. From the 56 survey respondents, a total of 20 factors that can positively influence the ARCM activities in GSD were identified. The authors also performed a client–vendor‐based analysis to investigate the significance of the considered factors for different organisation types. Additionally, they compared the data collected from researchers and practitioners. The comparison results ( r s (20) = 0.076) revealed that there exists a positive correlation between the rankings in each data set. The investigated factors were mapped to ten project management book of knowledge areas, and the mapping results revealed that human resource management is the most significant knowledge area amongst the investigated factors. The findings of this study provide a robust framework to assist GSD firms in implementing ARCM activities.