Agile Method Software Developer

    Software Development-- Agile Method

Introduction—

Agile method which is widely used over a time of decade in software engineering. The agile method focuses on teamwork rather than the methods that use the traditional way of development. It used in the development of many software projects. The main focus of agile methodology is to take the team together, there is proper communication between team members. They are aware of every team member and if there is more workload with any team member then, they share work among them. Agile methodology states that the best way to communicate is face-to-face and think that most of the business firms follow this communication technique. There must be coordination and collaboration among different team member and business people should work together daily. 

The traditional method focuses on specialized skills, individual work, there is less customer interaction, the size of a team is large, whereas team size of agile development is small, there is proper involvement of customers, they have multi skills team members. These methods have helped many of the practices to deliver great value to the customers.

Related work and conceptual model—

1. Team Work in Software Development – A study by Sproull and Faraj showed that there is a strong bond between team performance and expertise management. Also, they found that the development or growth of a company depends upon the capabilities of their team members.

2. Team Work quality

3. The different minds together can lead to a better understanding and deep discussion on the given project.

1. Communication—Communication quality of members of teams can be measured in the form of number of times information exchanged. Basically, frequency points how random communication occurs between team members, the time spent by them on it. Communication requires written status of reports and planning which is considered as formal communication, while instant communication like chatting, speaking in doorways is considered as informal communication. If team members hesitate to communicate in open then it may hinder experience and sharing of knowledge which is important for company tasks. In agile methods organization forces team members to communicate with each other and talk in open. 

2. Coordination—Coordination means teams should agree and develop upon goal structure related to the common task and each member has their own sub-goals that are sufficient to complete a task. Estimation of the task and is divided among the team members according to the workload. If the desired goal is achieved it can only be done by the cooperation and moving together with a team. 

3. Member contribution Balance—The involvement of team members in task-relevant experience knowledge and decision-making capacity leads to benefit in the development of software. It is difficult to balance different members with different expertise in various fields. If some of the team members are extra capable then it may happen that other team members get demotivated which has a great impact on the overall performance of the team. The team leader should be capable enough to take the whole team together and figure out the best quality of each and every individual.

4. Mutual support—Within software development, there is a tight collaboration between team members individually and they have the tasks which are interdependent so they should cooperate with each other and let increase efficiency. Competitive and self-interest behavior of team members may decrease the overall performance of the task assigned. To work under projects one should have a great understanding of how to deal with people in a team.
5. Cohesion—The tendency to remain united and stick together to overcome the objectives and goals. A team member should be committed to their task and should be personally interacted with each team member. According to the development model, there is the value of each individual and their interactions rather than tools and processes thus described the importance of teamwork. 
6. Effort – Members of the team should support their team to get the best out of any task. Prioritization of the task assigned to team members over any other task is a good sign of individual growth rather than spending time on common tasks. In some cases, the group study may help but it may hinder some situations.

3. Software project success—Literature differentiates between outcome related to people and outcomes related to a task. Software project success can describe as the project that meets the requirement of the customer and is free of bugs. Team performance has a major role in project success and is able to manage time, cost, and quality objectives. The performance of the team and the effectiveness of the team are often used as the same meaning in literature. Almost all the model which describes the performance of the team is originated from psychology and management science.

Software quality measured according to the need of the customer which includes robustness, functioning, the performance of the software developed. Teams should work such that it increases confidence and motivation so that they can work together in the future. It is obvious that if the project gets completed successfully then they get the motivation to work in future projects with the same team.

4. Conceptual Model—. It gives us a detailed description of both empirical evidence and theoretical rationale Teamwork quality tells us how a collaborative team is and what the qualities of interactions.

Research method

1. Study Sample—A survey has occurred which describes the criteria for study participation uses at least one of agile methodology and successfully deceived software to the customer. The developer of these software are hired by big firms in the world.
2. Data collection—The survey consist of a questionnaire and were forwarded to different organizations and team members and asked to answer electronically and their answer was from their point of view and these data are stored for random study purposes.
3. Investigated variables
4. Statistical analysis and the model tested—Modeling of Structural equation is used for statistical analysis. It has two models, first describes the concept of interest which is purely data analytic. The second model is the structural model which describes how to relate concepts like linear regression.

Discussion—

1. Evaluation team performance difference—There are surveys which reveal huge difference among team leaders, team members, product owners. We can think that the close communication between team leaders, team members, in an agile method of development may help to find performance of a team. If we talk about traditional approach of plan that involves more reporting and documentation, which make it easier to understand the performance of a team. Regarding the quality of product, team leaders and product owners have a better understanding as compared to team members.

2. Practice Implication—There is a difference between practical aspects and theoretical aspects as described in a survey, individual perception should be included to improve the performance. If there is more focus on quality in a project the teamwork should be increased. Mutual understanding of team members is important to resolve the conflicts, collective discussions, and respect for team members, for the best results out of development.
3. Theory Implication—The major problem is to eliminate the redundancy to data in output process. Also, the project quality should be more as compared to before which includes budget and schedule as mention in implication data, it may be correlated negatively with work quality in some situations. Management style like dictator may lead to do work faster.
4. Limitations—In agile survey data collected during the execution of project while in traditional survey collection of data takes place after completion of project. The second difference between agile and traditional surveys is that in an agile survey some part of team works on other projects while remaining members join them accordingly whereas in traditional methods they work on a single project as a team.
5. Work in Future—Differences in various groups with respect to effect and teamwork quality is surveyed. The survey describes the linear relation between team performance and project quality. Ex- The performance of a team may improve if they communicate up to a certain threshold but if they cross it then it leads to degradation.

Conclusion—

Finally, the study and statics out of the survey reveal that team performance and teamwork are highly related. Teamwork quality and success of team member is directly proportional to their learning approach and their work satisfaction. A Conclusion of survey is that to improve the team performance there should be a proper teamwork. To advance team performance measurement in future it is recommended that more effort in research should we done.