Optimal Sprint Length Determination for Agile-Based Software Development

作     者：Adarsh Anand Jasmine Kaur Ompal Singh Omar H.Alhazmi 

作者机构：Department of Operational ResearchUniversity of DelhiDelhi110007India Department of Computer ScienceTaibah UniversityMedina30001Saudi Arabia 

出 版 物：《Computers, Materials & Continua》 (计算机、材料和连续体（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第68卷第9期

页      面：3693-3712页

核心收录：

学科分类：0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 0808[工学-电气工程] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0701[理学-数学] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：Agile principles agile-based software development dynamic sprint length multi-attribute utility theory scrum software development life cycle 

摘      要：A carefully planned software development process helps in maintaining the quality of the *** today’s scenario the primitive software development models have been replaced by the Agile based models like SCRUM,KANBAN,LEAN,***,every framework has its own boon,the reason for widespread acceptance of the agile-based approach is its evolutionary nature that permits change in the path of software *** development process occurs in iterative and incremental cycles called *** SCRUM,which is one of the most widely used agile-based software development modeling framework;the sprint length is fixed throughout the process wherein;it is usually taken to be 1–4 *** in practical application,the sprint length should be altered intuitively as per the *** overcome this limitation,in this paper,a methodical work has been presented that determines the optimal sprint length based on two varied and yet connected attributes;the cost incurred and the work intensity *** approach defines the number of tasks performed in each sprint along with the corresponding cost incurred in performing those ***-attribute utility theory(MAUT),a multi-criterion decision making approach,has been utilized to find the required trade-off between two attributes under *** proposed modeling framework has been validated using real life data *** the use of the model,the optimal sprint for each sprint could be evaluated which was much shorter than the original ***,the results obtained validate the proposal of a dynamic sprint length that can be determined before the start of each *** structure would help in cost as well as time savings for a firm.