Quality function deployment matrix based for agile large-scale software development

Other Title(s)

استخدام مصفوفة وظائف الجودة (QFD)‎ في تطوير البرمجيات السريعة واسعة النطاق

Dissertant

Ahmad, Amr Muhammad Hani al-Sayyid

Thesis advisor

al-Mashaykhi, Akram M. Uthman

Comitee Members

al-Ghul, Said
al-Hamami, Ala H.

University

Amman Arab University

Faculty

Collage of Computer Sciences and Informatics

Department

Department of Computer Science

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2014

English Abstract

Many challenges and obstacles have been arising when Agile methods are being used in large-scale projects.

Besides that the quality is one of the key factors to measure the success of the project, this research introduce doesn’t methods to solve those challenges only, but to ensure that the development organization has all what it needs to complete the project under using Agile methods in large-scale project and introduce methods to improve the quality and the relationship between all stockholders.

The scope of this study is to gain understanding how to facilitate the process to adopts Agile large-scale projects, that gives a better look and understood the best ways to avoid challenges and obstacles.

Also it gives recommended processes to create an infrastructure to help the project manager to facilitate scaling Agile in large projects.

Those recommended processes attempt to help the project managers in a number of ways to support them, to enhance, and to improve the communication and the coordination between the team members, to select the right infrastructure for their projects, to know how to deal with risks and quality assurance in large-scale projects, and to know how to facilitate large-scale development, and how to deal with change management in Agile large-scale projects.

On the other hand, this study offers a solution for the process of dealing with Agile large-scale projects challenges.

It presents a way that highlights on using modern communications technologies and social media websites in the process of maintaining the element of permanent connection between the team members, and it helps sharing the domain knowledge between team’s member to deal with the social skills, Agile training, documentation, decision making, and testing.

This study uses the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) matrix tool as a method to improve the quality and help the project manager in large-scale projects.

QFD is a method of customer oriented product developments and it has been used in a various kind of industries.

This makes it one of the most important methods to improve the relationship with the customer

Main Subjects

Information Technology and Computer Science

Topics

• Development
• Agile software development

No. of Pages

69

Table of Contents

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-562032