The COVID-19 pandemic caused a rapid change in workplace dynamics with the forced adoption of remote/hybrid activities. However, best practices for managing distributed software development teams, especially in specialized contexts, are still evolving. This paper reports on the experience of conducting a 1.5-year software development project using a hybrid management approach with nationally distributed teams in Brazil to develop an unplugged intelligent mathematics tutoring system for low-technology educational environments. The study presents a discussion of practices and challenges observed during the project execution. The project delivered a mobile application for automated handwritten math problem correction and instructional material generation. This experience provides practical insights for managing complex, distributed software projects in similar contexts, contributing to deepening knowledge about educational inclusion from a management perspective and refining hybrid management approaches in remote work settings.

Agile software development has become an attractive option for companies trying to improve their performance, even though its methods were originally designed for small, individual teams. Current literature does not provide a cohesive picture of how agile methods scale into account, like large and often distributed software development projects. Some studies claim that Communities of Practice (CoPs) can be essential to successfully adopting agile practices, especially in large organizations. CoPs are groups of experts who share a common interest or topic and collectively wish to deepen their knowledge. This study highlights how CoPs are applied and used to promote and scale agile methods in large projects. To answer the research question, “How have Communities of Practice been used to support large-scale agile development teams?” we conducted a Systematic Literature Mapping (SLM) in the context of “Largescale Agile Methods” and “Communities of Practice”. Thus, from twenty-one studies, it was possible to synthesize three different themes and 13 categories that promote good practices in the adoption of CoPs to scale agile methods, including “coordination between teams”, “knowledge sharing”, and “open community”.

The organizational environment becomes increasingly focused on projects, it is time to unleash the power and energy embedded in projects. The disturbingly poor project success rate makes it imperative that the organization pays more attention to their project activity, their potential, and the competitive advantage that they can bring. The goal of this article is to understand what gives rise to uncertainty; to recognize its symptoms and explore strategies for controlling it. This article offers a classification to source of uncertainty in software projects, a guide to manage software projects in phases of uncertainty and our aim is to assist project managers and staff to reduce uncertainty and thereby contribute to commercial project success.