期刊名称：Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1992-8645
电子版ISSN：1817-3195
出版年度：2021
卷号：99
期号：17
语种：English
出版社：Journal of Theoretical and Applied
摘要：Due to the viral outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, organizations have adhered to social distancing and/or lockdown measurements. Project teams have shifted from direct communication in the workplace to remote working. Obviously, such sudden changes have led the organizations to face many challenges. A number of these challenges are related to the communication and cooperation among the team members and also to fulfilling the code documentation process that helps the team later in the maintenance phase. In this paper, the researchers propose a modification to the Scrum methodology called the Distributed Scrum (Di-Scrum). It is designed based on suggesting activities called the TAGICK activities (Timekeeping; Aggregation; Groupthink; Interconnectedness; Continuous documentation; and Knowledge transfer). Moreover, each activity supports the agile principles and rules. Additionally, these activities help the team members improve their performance. They also enable them to overcome all the obstacles mentioned above which they face while working remotely. We have used a questionnaire to evaluate the suggested activities. The questionnaire is filled in by 40 different employees in four software development companies applying the Di-Scrum model. The results of the evaluation indicate the effectiveness of the TAGICK activities with remote teams. They have led to enhancement of group communication, cooperation and ability of continuous documentation.
