Enabling Collaboration in Distributed Requirements Management

Sinha, Vibha Singhal; Sengupta, Bikram; Chandra, Satish

doi:10.1109/ms.2006.123

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“…[11], who introduced the concept of "common ground". The suggestions proposed by Sinha [64] concerning the fact that developers should be able to initiate conversations easily and that oneto-many communication tools could support this ability have been addressed for the case of distributed teams and also pointed out by Mishra et al [20]. This is also aligned with Paasivaara [65] regarding the importance of creating a community, and Kropp et al [11] regarding placing the team in the same room as a way of fostering communication.…”

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An exploratory study in communication in Agile Global Software Development

Yagüe

Garbajosa

Díaz

et al. 2016

Computer Standards & Interfaces

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Keywords:Global Distributed Software Development Agüe Exploratory research Tools and technologies Infrastructure Global software development (GSD) is gaining ever more relevance. Although communication is key in the exchange of information between team members, multi-site software development has introduced additional obstacles (different time-zones and cultures, IT infrastructure, etc.) and delays into the act of communication, which is already problematic. Communication is even more critical in the case of Agile Global Software Development (AGSD) in which communication plays a primary role. This paper reports an exploratory study of the effects of tools supporting communication in AGSD. More precisely, this paper analyses the perception of team members about communication infrastructures in AGSD. The research question to which this study responds concerns how development teams perceive the communication infrastructure while developing products using agile methodologies. Most previous studies have dealt with communication support from a highly technological media tool perspective. In this research work, instead, observations were obtained from three perspectives: communication among team members, communication of the status of the development process, and communication of the status of the progress of the product under development. It has been possible to show that team members perceive advantages to using media tools that make them feel in practice that teams are co-located, such as smartboards supported by effident video-tools, and combining media tools with centralized repository tools, with information from the process development and product characteristics, that allow distributed teams to effectively share information about the status of the project/process/product during the development process in order to overeóme some of the still existing problems in communication in AGSD.

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Section: Overall Perceptionmentioning

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An exploratory study in communication in Agile Global Software Development

Yagüe

Garbajosa

Díaz

et al. 2016

Computer Standards & Interfaces

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“…Sinha et al [64] built a tool for collaborative requirements engineering on top of the jazz environment, including collaborative functionality designed to address common requirements engineering issues such as resolving requirements ambiguities and managing and notifying stakeholders about requirements changes. In order to support the kind of intensive communication required to support planning for an agile-style development in a distributed context, Morgan and Maurer [51] designed a tool to support intense interaction needed for agile-style planning in a GSD context, using a tabletop and virtual note card metaphor.…”

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Global Software Engineering: The Future of Socio-technical Coordination

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2007

Future of Software Engineering (FOSE '07)

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“…Studies have established that the right tools and technologies can be significantly beneficial for global collaboration in requirements management (Sinha, Sengupta, & Chandra, 2006). In particular, studies have demonstrated that the quality of solutions and the creativity of computer-supported conferencing groups were marginally higher than software groups that met face-to-face (Ocker et al, 1995).…”

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“…Sinha et al (2006) Groups meeting face-to-face perform no better than those using video conferencing and computer support in negotiating requirements.…”

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Considerations for Effective Requirements Analysis in Offshore Software Development Projects: Lessons from Multi-Method Research

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Adya²,

Nath³

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Abstract:Offshore software development using geographically distributed teams is an accepted practice in software development today. However, software development companies have largely only offshored the software development lifecycle's coding and testing phases. However, lately, offshoring the requirements analysis (RA) phase has become increasingly viable for several reasons including the software industry's maturation and improved communication technologies. However, successfully evaluating this highly interactive phase between geographically dispersed client and provider teams requires special considerations. In this paper, we present practical insights garnered from conducting experiments and surveys of IS professionals from the Indian software industry and from extensively examining the literature. Our findings confirm that, subject to certain best practices, one can effectively conduct RA in software projects offshore. We present these practices as lessons learned and provide related recommendations for industry and academia.

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Enabling Collaboration in Distributed Requirements Management

Cited by 80 publications

References 8 publications

An exploratory study in communication in Agile Global Software Development

An exploratory study in communication in Agile Global Software Development

Global Software Engineering: The Future of Socio-technical Coordination

Considerations for Effective Requirements Analysis in Offshore Software Development Projects: Lessons from Multi-Method Research

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