Blueprint model: An agile-oriented methodology for tackling global software development challenges

Abstract

In recent decades, the challenge of managing the development teams spread across different time zones has become increasingly common, raising the importance of the development of Global Software Development (GSD) techniques, in order to tackle its particular problems. This work discuss these issues in the context of Sidia, an R&D institute which implements technological solutions for global companies. The main partner of Sidia is a mobile multinational company located in overseas. The development team must cooperate with the overseas team, even though there are no overlapping working hours between both teams. Besides, the teams have a different set of skills regarding design, quality assurance, and software engineering. In order to address theses problems, we propose the Blueprint model, a Kanban and Scrum based model that supports the development of GSD systems, the allocation of tasks and teams, and the efficient communication. Finally, we discuss the aspects and lessons learned of development of project and deploy of a new model for systems development on a real-word project.