TY - GEN
T1 - The impact of fear on the operation of virtual teams
AU - Casey, Valentine
AU - Richardson, Ita
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Distributed software development has become the norm for the software industry today. As a result many organizations are leveraging the expertise of their existing staff by establishing virtual teams. Here we outline the results from three independent case studies undertaken over a period of eight years. The first study considered the operation of virtual teams whose members were situated in two locations in the same country. The second investigated why U.S. and Irish team members who worked very successfully while collocated, experienced serious problems when operating in virtual teams. The third focused on virtual testing teams with members based in Ireland and Malaysia. The Irish staff had extensive experience of having projects offshored to them and were now responsible for ojfshoring part of their work. The results from each case study highlighted the importance and impact fear played and the consequences this had for the success of the respective strategies.
AB - Distributed software development has become the norm for the software industry today. As a result many organizations are leveraging the expertise of their existing staff by establishing virtual teams. Here we outline the results from three independent case studies undertaken over a period of eight years. The first study considered the operation of virtual teams whose members were situated in two locations in the same country. The second investigated why U.S. and Irish team members who worked very successfully while collocated, experienced serious problems when operating in virtual teams. The third focused on virtual testing teams with members based in Ireland and Malaysia. The Irish staff had extensive experience of having projects offshored to them and were now responsible for ojfshoring part of their work. The results from each case study highlighted the importance and impact fear played and the consequences this had for the success of the respective strategies.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICGSE.2008.28
DO - 10.1109/ICGSE.2008.28
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:56349093047
SN - 9780769532806
T3 - Proceedings - 2008 3rd IEEE International Conference Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2008
SP - 163
EP - 172
BT - Proceedings - 2008 3rd IEEE International Conference Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2008
T2 - 2008 3rd IEEE International Conference Global Software Engineering, ICGSE 2008
Y2 - 17 August 2008 through 20 August 2008
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