TY - GEN
T1 - Benefits of global software development
T2 - International Conference on Software Process, ICSP 2008
AU - Ågerfalk, Pär J.
AU - Fitzgerald, Brian
AU - Holmström Olsson, Helena
AU - Ó Conchúir, Eoin
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Organizations are increasingly moving to the global software development (GSD) model because of significant benefits that can accrue. However, GSD is fraught with difficulties arising from geographical, temporal and socio-cultural distances. The emphasis in the literature to date has typically been on how to overcome these significant challenges associated with GSD. While a number of GSD benefits have been identified in the literature, there are also a number of less obvious, what we term 'unknown,' potential benefits that can accrue from GSD. Here we synthesize and integrate an overall set of potential GSD benefits and categorize them according to the organizational, team and process level to which they are most applicable. The 'unknown' includes organization benefits, such as improved resource allocation, team benefits, such as reduced coordination cost and improved team autonomy, and process benefits, such as improved documentation and clearly defined processes.
AB - Organizations are increasingly moving to the global software development (GSD) model because of significant benefits that can accrue. However, GSD is fraught with difficulties arising from geographical, temporal and socio-cultural distances. The emphasis in the literature to date has typically been on how to overcome these significant challenges associated with GSD. While a number of GSD benefits have been identified in the literature, there are also a number of less obvious, what we term 'unknown,' potential benefits that can accrue from GSD. Here we synthesize and integrate an overall set of potential GSD benefits and categorize them according to the organizational, team and process level to which they are most applicable. The 'unknown' includes organization benefits, such as improved resource allocation, team benefits, such as reduced coordination cost and improved team autonomy, and process benefits, such as improved documentation and clearly defined processes.
KW - Benefits
KW - Challenges
KW - Global software development
KW - Offshoring
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=44649150400&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-79588-9_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-79588-9_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:44649150400
SN - 3540795871
SN - 9783540795872
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 9
BT - Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story - International Conference on Software Process, ICSP 2008, Proceedings
Y2 - 10 May 2008 through 11 May 2008
ER -