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Role of Trust in Distributed Agile Software Development Teams-A Light Weight Systematic Literature Review


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1 Department of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, India
2 School of Information and Communication Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India
     

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Agile software development is being adopted in distributed environment to reduce cost and to increase scalability of software projects. With agile development teams working in distributed environments, challenges are often faced related to trust and cohesiveness among agile team members. This paper presents the light weight systematic review for investigating the role of trust in distributed agile software development projects. The results are limited to articles published in peer reviewed conferences, scientific journals and books published between 2006 and 2017. The synthesis of articles has been made through classifying the studies based on research method, publication channel and publication year. Our results sheds lights on different studies related to trust related issues in distributed agile software development teams.

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Agile Software Development, Peer Reviewed Conferences, Journals, Books.
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Authors

Sulabh Tyagi
Department of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, India
Ritu Sibal
Department of Information Technology, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, India
Bharti Suri
School of Information and Communication Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India

Abstract


Agile software development is being adopted in distributed environment to reduce cost and to increase scalability of software projects. With agile development teams working in distributed environments, challenges are often faced related to trust and cohesiveness among agile team members. This paper presents the light weight systematic review for investigating the role of trust in distributed agile software development projects. The results are limited to articles published in peer reviewed conferences, scientific journals and books published between 2006 and 2017. The synthesis of articles has been made through classifying the studies based on research method, publication channel and publication year. Our results sheds lights on different studies related to trust related issues in distributed agile software development teams.

Keywords


Agile Software Development, Peer Reviewed Conferences, Journals, Books.

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