Browsing by Author "Akarsu, Zulal"

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Citation Count: Akarsu, Zulal...et al (2018). "Towards a Role Playing Game for Exploring the Roles in Scrum to Improve Collaboration Problems", Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 896, pp. 254-264.
Towards a Role Playing Game for Exploring the Roles in Scrum to Improve Collaboration Problems
(2018) Akarsu, Zulal; Metin, Özgün Onat; Güngör, Deniz; Yılmaz, Murat
Scrum is the most popular, useful and lightweight framework based on agile software development philosophy. In particular, software development organizations are willing to transform their software development culture to benefit from its fruitful practices. In addition, it is almost inevitable for the organizations with historical development practices to face many dysfunctions during transformation phase, which is normal and expected. It is important to uncover, analyze and solve these dysfunctions, which may take some time. One of the problems organizations may encounter is the confusion and misapplication of the roles in Scrum. This dysfunction creates problems from task creation, follow-up, taking responsibility to collaboration problems in the project. The goal of this study is to address such situations using an interactive role playing game-based approach among team members to improve collaboration.
Citation Count: Akarsu, Zulal...et al (2018). "Using adapted version of hoshin matrix for selection of agile software development processes", CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 10 September 2018 through 12 September 2018, Vol. 2201.
Using adapted version of hoshin matrix for selection of agile software development processes
(2018) Akarsu, Zulal; Metin, Ozgun Onat; Kuru, Yasemin Yigit; Yılmaz, Murat
According to Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV), organizational process performance (OPP) area aims to establish and maintain a quantitative understanding of performance of selected processes. Many organizations have started their agile transformation to leverage the capabilities of their software development processes. In order to measure the effects of agile transformation, it is important to understand to what extent agile methods contribute to business objectives. Hoshin Matrix is a tool that provides a rationale for selecting processes identified for process performance analyses. Moreover, this rationale includes traceability from software development execution to business objectives. This study describes the implementation example of an adapted version of Hoshin Matrix at Huawei Turkey Research and Development Center which aims to establish its organizational quantitative quality and process performance objectives based on a set of business objectives. Our preliminary findings suggest that our OPP design may provide a guideline for software development organizations who are willing to adopt agile transformation and for those who would like to improve their software development processes.