Collaboration maturity and the offshoring cost barrier: the tradeoff between flexibility in team composition and cross-site communication effort in geographically distributed development projects

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Lasser ◽  
M. Heiss
Keyword(s):  
Development Projects ◽  
Team Composition ◽  
Distributed Development ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Cross Site

A Model for Selecting Techniques in Distributed Requirement Elicitation Processes

2011 ◽  
pp. 351-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Aranda ◽  
Aurora Vizcaíno ◽  
Alejandra Cechich ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Requirements Elicitation ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Requirement Elicitation ◽  
Distributed Development ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
And Control

This chapter introduces a model based on techniques from cognitive psychology as a means to improve the requirement elicitation in global software development projects. Since distance negatively affects communication and control, distributed development processes that are crucially based on communication, such as requirements elicitation, have to be specially rethought in order to minimize critical situations. This chapter proposes reducing problems in communication by selecting a suite of appropriate elicitation techniques and groupware tools according to stakeholders’ cognitive styles. It also shows how information about stakeholders’ personalities can be used to make them feel comfortable and to improve their performances when working in a group.

Moderating Effect of Team Distributedness on Organizational Dimensions for Innovation Project Success

2011 ◽  
pp. 216-235
Author(s):  
Mario Bourgault ◽  
Nathalie Drouin ◽  
Hélène Sicotte ◽  
Jaouad Daoudi
Keyword(s):  
New Product Development ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Effectiveness Data

This article addresses the issue of geographically distributed work teams that carry out new product development projects. These are task-oriented, goal-driven, temporary teams that use ICTs. This exploratory study measures the moderating affect of team distributedness on the relationships between organizational and workforce management best practices and two measures of project success (efficacy and effectiveness). Data were obtained from real teams working in Canadian companies in diverse high-tech industries. The results show a moderating effect of team distributedness, which is interesting in that the distributedness factor is examined from a different perspective, that is, as a moderating rather than an explanatory dimension.

scholarly journals SOURCING OF INFORMATION SYSTEM RESORCES FROM AN EMERGENT MARKET – AN EXAMPLE OF UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
pp. 213-225
Author(s):  
Bjarne Rerup SCHLICHTER ◽  
Natalia BOLKVADZE
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
It Services ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Distributed Development ◽  
Western Ukraine ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Point Of Departure

Geographically distributed development of information systems calls for a set of specific skills among all actors involved, especially when sourcing from an emergent economy in an unstable national situation. With a theoretical point of departure in a resource-based view on strategy, this paper discusses sourcing of IT services from western Ukraine with the purpose of identifying its qualities and challenges as well as identifying a path for research to understand the dynamics of the actual situation. The paper concludes with suggestions on how to proceed with the research based on indications that the actual situation is not as challenging as suggested by some observers.

scholarly journals SABUMO-dTest: Design and evaluation of an intelligent collaborative distributed testing framework

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios ◽  
Luis López-Cuadrado ◽  
Israel González-Carrasco ◽  
José García-Peñalvo
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Semantic Technologies ◽  
Controlled Vocabularies ◽  
Distributed Development ◽  
Testing Framework ◽  
Distributed Testing ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Distributed Process ◽  
Global Software Engineering

Software development must increasingly adapt to teams whose members work together but are geographically separated leading to distributed development projects. Such projects consist of teams working together, but sited in different geographic locations. Under these conditions, Global Software Engineering is having a profound impact on the way products are conceived, designed, constructed and tested. One of the problems with this area is the lack of tools which supports the distributed process. Focusing on the testing process, this paper presents SABUMO-dTest, a framework based on Semantic technologies that allows software organizations to represent testing processes with the final aim of trading their services or modeling their testing needs in a social and competitive environment. The proposed framework benefits from a set of shared and controlled vocabularies that permit knowledge and process sharing with potential partners, experts and testing service providers. The evaluation of the system included two kinds of projects, the ones in which testing was not determined by SABUMO-dTest and the ones developed under its influence. Results show remarkable outcomes in SABUMO-dTest driven projects.

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