Migrating Vietnam Offshore into Agile

Abstract

Agile and Offshoring are emerging as 2 prominent trends of the software industry. Unfortunately, offshoring might impact the results of Agile projects, and Agile practices also often cause difficulties to offshore development centers. This paper outlines the problems of migrating the offshore development centers to the Agile process as analyzed from the perspectives of the largest IT outsourcing company in Vietnam. The paper also details an improved model based on the Scrum framework, the most popular Agile implementation according to State of Agile in Version One 2017. The purpose of this model is to minimize the negative impacts of Agile in offshore development centers and vice versa. Finally, this paper also provides the result of applying the model into a "focal" project under the author's management.