Gerenciamento de dependências em equipes ágeis que utilizam scrum em escala

Abstract

Agile methods have been gaining increasing popularity, use and acceptance in the software development community and frameworks like Scrum, which was originally recommended for use by small teams, has been gaining increasing adoption in large software projects.In addiction, with the need to scale, multiple teams are involved in the same project, sharing resources and code, as a result dependencies are inevitable. In order to identify and monitor them, coordination and communication become vital to project growth. This paper aimed to present a proposal of process and artifacts to manage dependencies in teams that use Scrum at scale. To achieve the objective, a 3-step methodology was adopted. To achieve the objective, a 3-step methodology was adopted. In step 1, a literature review was performed, which sought to identify the dependency problems experienced by companies that use the Scrum method in multiple teams system and which strategies they use to solve or mitigate the dependency problems; and the practices used to run a sprint planning in order to promote the identification and monitoring of dependencies. In step 2 a Scrum multi-team dependency planning process was proposed, in order to identify and monitor dependencies, also proposed a board and artifacts to monitor dependencies between teams visually. As a result, by understanding the problems, identifying the most commonly used practices, and identifying the gaps in dependency management across multiple agile teams, it was possible to present a process, monitoring framework, and artifact proposal to document and control dependencies, thus hoping to contribute to alleviate the problems in this context.