Coordination Strategies: Managing Inter-team Coordination Challenges in Large-Scale Agile

Implicit Coordination Strategies for Effective Team Communication

OBJECTIVE We investigated implicit communication strategies for anticipatory information sharing during team performance of tasks with varying degrees of complexity. We compared the strategies used by teams with the highest level of performance to those used by the lowest-performing teams to evaluate the frequency and methods of communications used as a function of task structure. BACKGROUND ...

Market-based Coordination Strategies for Large-scale Multi-Agent Systems

This paper studies market-based mechanisms for dynamic coordinated task assignment in large scale agent systems carrying out search and rescue missions. Specifically, the effect of different auction mechanisms and swapping are studied. The paper describes results from a large number of simulations of homogeneous agents, where by homogeneous we mean that agents in a given simulation use the same...

Agile & Kanban In Coordination

Iterative development and Kanban are not mutually exclusive competing methodologies; in essence they are complementary processes that when used together can facilitate higher performance in large development teams. This paper is a walkthrough of the Network Gaming team’s implementation of Iterative Agile alongside Lean Kanban here at WMS Gaming. The intent is to cover the processes created and ...

Formulating Effective Coordination Strategies in Agile Global Software Development Teams

Coordination of interdependent tasks across geographical, temporal and socio-cultural boundaries has been identified as a critical antecedent to global software development (GSD) team performance. Since GSD teams are increasingly required to achieve software development agility and respond to changing business requirements, conventional plan-driven software development methods become inadequate...

Managing Inter-Agency Coordination in United Nations Peacebuilding