A Social and Interactive Tool to Support Pattern Communities in Large-Scale Agile Development

Motivation

Today's business environment is very dynamic and traditional software development methodologies are not always able to fulfill the business needs as required. Thus agile methodologies have emerged. Agile methodologies have influenced software development processes by accentuating change tolerance, customer involvement, and team collaboration. The success of agile methods for small, co-located teams has inspired companies to apply agile methods to large-scale projects. Since those methods are originally designed for small teams, unparalleled challenges occur when introducing them at a larger scale, such as inter-team coordination and communication, dependencies with other organizational units, or general resistance to changes. Since patterns provide structured solutions to recurring concerns, we aim to support the establishment of pattern communities in large scale agile development by addressing typical challenges of pattern languages.

Research Questions