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Task allocation and coordination in distributed agile software development: a systematic review

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Large software companies are facing issues at project management level to allocate and manage tasks in distributed agile software development environment. Teams are located in different cities or countries with different profiles and expertise. When those teams are expanding, it is becoming more time consuming and difficult to coordinate. In order to do a proper assignment of tasks to an individual or team, a number of factors have to be taken into consideration. The larger number of influencing factors identified, the more the task allocation process can be improved. In this paper, we have done a review on the existing publications for task allocation and coordination in distributed agile software development. The study shows that most research works are either related to coordination process in agile environment/distributed environments or task allocation process in agile distributed settings. Only few have investigated on factors or approaches considering both task allocation and coordination. A systematic literature review has therefore been conducted over Google Scholar to filter out the most relevant publications from year 2010 to 2019. Results of the review are presented and analyzed in the paper.

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Nundlall, C., Nagowah, S.D. Task allocation and coordination in distributed agile software development: a systematic review. Int. j. inf. tecnol. 13, 321–330 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-020-00543-4

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