Project about Requirement Engineering in Agile Global Software Development with case study at Cegeka, a Belgium company with distributed sites in the Netherlands and Romania

1. GPM Final Presentation
Cegeka Netherlands-Romania
Group 6
Chidiebere Ikejemba
Mohammad Anggasta Paramartha
Aurore Ombredane
Alexandra Roditi

2. The Company
Belgium ICT company with
Netherlands and Romanian
subsidiaries
Agile Global Software
Development between
the Netherlands and Romania

3. Agile Global Software Development at
Cegeka

4. Problem Statement &
Research Question
• Lack of understanding of the company strategy and vision caused by
miscommunication between the Scrum Master and the Business Analyst
• How to improve the requirements communication between the Business
Analyst and the Scrum Master so that the developers have a better
understanding of the company and product vision?
-> How to incorporate company and product vision into the
software requirements or through the whole agile process?
->How to make communication between Business Analyst and
Scrum Master better?
->How to make developers more aware of the company and
product vision?

5. Research Methodology
• Interview to Director of the Shared Software Factory in the
Netherlands and Business Unit Manager in Romania
• Literature review

6. Vision and requirements

7. Requirements Apprehension
• Communication is a human activity
• Influence of the environment

8. Translation of requirements
• Translation of business requirements into technical requirements
-> Need of a common language
• Use of UML
• Graphical Representations

9. Recommendations
• Parallel SPM and Development sprints
• Informal communication via formal channels
• Balanced Coordination
• Constant Communications
• Use common language for BA and Scrum
Master
• Defining and sending to entire team a good
roadmap

10. Conclusion
• Limitations
• General Solutions and Best Practices
• Good Starting Point!
• Feedback from the company

11. Questions?