How Globally Distributed Software Teams Can Improve Their Collaboration Effectiveness?

Author(s):  
Mayank Gupta ◽  
Jude Fernandez
Author(s):  
Rodi Jolak ◽  
Andreas Wortmann ◽  
Grischa Liebel ◽  
Eric Umuhoza ◽  
Michel R. V. Chaudron

2012 ◽  
pp. 1811-1822
Author(s):  
Gianluca Miscione

This chapter addresses the institutional dimension of scaling of information systems through the interplay of globally distributed software development with organizational processes. Through examining various phases of a long term project to implement information systems for the public health care sector in global South countries, I highlight changing sources of acceptance and legitimation. The analysis centers on the balance between local and global levels, from pilot sites, through an emerging broader organizational field, to increasingly involving national level institutional settings. In parallel to the established view of the scaling of ICT implementations as relating to complexity and risk in the form of unintended side-effects of the growth of a system, the chapter highlights the qualitative switch between regulatory contexts. Shifting relations to local institutions means that scalability requires actors to interact with quite different organizational cultures, accountabilities and communicative practices.


2012 ◽  
pp. 1475-1491
Author(s):  
Stuart Faulk ◽  
Michal Young

This chapter describes an approach to building a collaborative teaching community that seeks to address these problems. It begins by identifying the skills students should acquire in a Distributed Software Development (DSD) course and discusses why firsthand experience with DSD problems is essential to learning them. The chapter identifies the attributes that make DSD project courses difficult to develop or teach, and then it describes a distributed team approach to developing a reusable infrastructure and a teaching community to address those difficulties. Future work focuses on building an international community of educators and industry participants interested in partnering to develop and teach DSD courses.


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