Abstract

Much as Scrum, Kanban, and XP are used to structure team-level agility, those wishing to take agility beyond the team level often turn to proven solutions. The most popular, which aim to scale development by adding teams under a shared collective ownership rather than separating them into discrete units, are the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), and Nexus. These frameworks advocate for aligning ownership subdivisions along features rather than code, which allows teams working on the same product to do so autonomously. While the benefits of this have been researched, the topology of ownership in these frameworks and what role code ownership continues to play has not. This thesis aims to establish the topology of ownership intended by these frameworks by examining their guides and how ownership ends up in practice via systematic review.

Publication Date

2024

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Software Engineering (MS)

Department, Program, or Center

Software Engineering, Department of

College

Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

Advisor

Samuel Malachowsky

Advisor/Committee Member

Christian Newman

Advisor/Committee Member

Daqing Hou

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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