The dilemma of high level planning in distributed agile software projects: An action research study in a Danish Bank

Abstract

The chapter reports on an action research study with the aim to design a high level planning process in distributed and co-located software projects based on agile methods. The main contributions are the insight that high level planning process is highly integrated with other project disciplines and specific steps has to be taken to apply the process in distributed projects; and the action research approach is indeed suitable to software process improvements. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.