Emerging Research Themes and updated Research Agenda for Large-Scale Agile Development: A Summary of the 5th International Workshop at XP2017

Abstract

Large software development projects and programs are increasingly adopting agile development practices. Frameworks for managing large agile development projects is gaining popularity, such as the Scaled Agile Framework and Large Scale Scrum. New challenges arise as agile methods are used in a large-scale context and this raises new questions for research and practice. The fifth workshop on large-scale agile development focused on: Coordination and inter-team coordination of large scale agile development as well as large- scale agile transformations. Based on the workshop presentations and discussions, we propose an updated research agenda for large-scale agile development.