TY - GEN
T1 - Global software development challenges
T2 - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2006
AU - Holmstrom, Helena
AU - Conchúir, Eoin Ó
AU - Ågerfalk, Pär J.
AU - Fitzgerald, Brian
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Global software development (GSD) is a phenomenon that is receiving considerable interest from companies all over the world. In GSD, stakeholders from different national and organizational cultures are involved in developing software and the many benefits include access to a large labour pool, cost advantage and round-the-clock development. However, GSD is technologically and organizationally complex and presents a variety of challenges to be managed by the software development team. In particular, temporal, geographical and socio-cultural distances impose problems not experienced in traditional systems development. In this paper, we present findings from a case study in which we explore the particular challenges associated with managing GSD. Our study also reveals some of the solutions that are used to deal with these challenges. We do so by empirical investigation at three US based GSD companies operating in Ireland. Based on qualitative interviews we present challenges related to temporal, geographical and socio-cultural distance.
AB - Global software development (GSD) is a phenomenon that is receiving considerable interest from companies all over the world. In GSD, stakeholders from different national and organizational cultures are involved in developing software and the many benefits include access to a large labour pool, cost advantage and round-the-clock development. However, GSD is technologically and organizationally complex and presents a variety of challenges to be managed by the software development team. In particular, temporal, geographical and socio-cultural distances impose problems not experienced in traditional systems development. In this paper, we present findings from a case study in which we explore the particular challenges associated with managing GSD. Our study also reveals some of the solutions that are used to deal with these challenges. We do so by empirical investigation at three US based GSD companies operating in Ireland. Based on qualitative interviews we present challenges related to temporal, geographical and socio-cultural distance.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38649089462&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICGSE.2006.261210
DO - 10.1109/ICGSE.2006.261210
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38649089462
SN - 0769526632
SN - 9780769526638
T3 - Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2006
SP - 3
EP - 11
BT - Proceedings - 2006 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2006
Y2 - 16 October 2006 through 19 October 2006
ER -