Abstract:
This paper presents the results of a comprehensive
literature survey and a web based survey on the use of Scrum in
offshore software development (OSD) in Sri Lankan context. The
trend in the recent software development industry is to move
towards OSD. Issues and challenges related to OSD have to be
solved to gain success. Scrum has gained a significant attention
due to its flexible approach to managing requirement volatility
and emphasis on extensive collaboration between customer and
development team. However, the geographical and cultural
distance of offshore teams create challenges for use Scrum with
OSD. Hence objectives of the research was to identify issues and
challenges related to OSD in Sri Lankan context and how those
issues and challenges can be overcome by using Scrum. Results of
the study reveal that key factors of Scrum such as
communication, people, process, and organizational factors are
having positive contribution towards OSD success in Sri Lankan
context. This study further reveals the importance of combining
engineering practices with Scrum to achieve the success in OSD
in Sri Lankan context.
