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... is an increasingly common strategic response to issues such as skill set availability, acquisitions, government restrictions, increased code size, cost and complexity, and other resource constraints =-=[5, 10]-=-. In this paper, we examine development that is globally distributed, but completely within Microsoft. This style of global development within a single company is to be contrasted with outsourcing whi...

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...ated socio-technical issues [45, 33, 48, 63]. In fact, a recent invited talk at ICSE describes the importance of issues facing socio-technical coordination in a global environment (a key facet of OSS)=-=[32]-=-. 3. RELATED WORK Prior work related to this study can be divided into three categories: first, on social networks; second on the effect of organizational structure on effectiveness; and finally, on d...

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...ocess is recognized, advances in network communications can be brought to bear to improve their participation. Collaboration technologies in general offer significant potential for the design process =-=[39]-=-. Communication technologies are, relatively-speaking, free; designers should exploit that. Display technology offers another basis for improvement in design practice. Very high resolution, very large...

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...with an explicit status indicating whether they are ongoing. I. INTRODUCTION Global Software Engineering (GSE) is becoming increasingly interesting due to the globalization of business [1], [2], [3], =-=[4]-=-, [5], [6]. In GSE the software development process is distributed between several geographically dispersed locations [7], [3], [8]. Advantages of GSE include: market-proximity [9], [10], [3], reducin...

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...e believe that results of this article would provide a useful guide for the development of new model integration operators. Particularly, with the recent interest in Global Software Engineering (GSE) =-=[14]-=-, there is now an increasing demand for flexible integration techniques for consolidating models that are built by geographically distributed teams. We anticipate GSE to spur new research on model int...

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...hitecture, typically stay in high-wage countries, e.g., USA or Germany. Although the understanding of Global Software Development has grown in the recent years, it is not yet a mature discipline [1], =-=[2]-=-, [3]. According to [4] 68% of GSDbased teaching/training experiences are presented as case studies, mainly presented by universities. An example for courses/lectures is the Global Studio Project [5]....

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...many organisationsstoday and the popularity of this strategy continues tosincrease. Companies are endeavoring to gain and maintainseconomic advantage through numerous technical andscommercial factors =-=[1]-=-[2]. The revolution in availability ofsvarious communication tools and their accessibility with ansoption to utilize remotely located competent workforce hasshelped globalisation of software developme...

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...n, proximity to markets and making use of different competencies [2], but there are also many challenges. The most commonly cited challenges in GSD contexts concern communication [3] and coordination =-=[4]-=-, both essential elements in creating alignment between stakeholders [5]. There is a wide body of evidence showing that organisations that can create alignment through “convergent intentions, shared u...

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...esearch is to explore how the effective use of agile practices can reduce challenges that impact on GSD coordination processes. 3. Coordination Coordination is considered to be a key organizational activity in any software development. A traditional co-located software development team usually builds up the coordination of their different tasks in a number of ways. A highly idealized traditional co-located development team has a shared view of work processes and coordination is achieved either because of shared defined processes, or by acquiring a common set of habits and vocabulary over time [12]. Herbsleb [12] suggests that through frequent formal and informal interactions, co-located team members have a clear idea of who has what sort of expertise, and how responsibilities are allocated throughout the development team. The development team uses informal communication along with formal instructions throughout the development process. But geographical, temporal and socio-cultural distances make GSD communication, coordination and control process difficult and they require more development time than their co-located development counterpart [13, 15]. Herbsleb et al [13] comment that a d...