Global Software Development Handbook

Global Software Engineering: The Future of Socio-technical Coordination

“…Our understanding of how various practices play together takes two forms. First, sets of compatible or complementary practices are bundled together and recommended as a whole [20,60]. The other approach is to address the practices in a purely atomic manner, matching them for example to problems they address [7].…”

“…At the same time, we have accumulated considerable knowledge and experience, which is beginning to appear in the form of comprehensive practitioner-oriented books [10,60], and several special sections or special issues on this topic [22,40].…”

Analytical Modeling of Software Development Teams in Globally Distributed Projects

“…There are different factors that affects productivity such as perceived schedule versus actual schedule, increased interactions due to project milestones and tasks misconceptions or changes in requirements. The measure of team productivity is also influenced by the developers morale, as they must constantly feel that the project is smoothly progressing [16].…”

“…To reduce the need of external support, research results point out that the project must be divided in self contained units, loosely coupled, to maximize work periods [8], [16]. In conjunction with availability and participants expertise, these characteristics have been subjected to many researches in past years, where there is a lack of quantitative analysis to discover their influence on GSD contexts.…”

“…At the authors best knowledge, there is an absence of related works concerning analytical modeling for globally distributed teams. Considering the fact that the performance analysis of geographically dispersed teams is emerging [20], [1], [16], [11], [8], advances are needed for the quantitative evaluation of such systems using stochastic modeling as a tool.…”