Leveraging Global Resources: A Process Maturity Framework for Managing Distributed Development

Ramasubbu, Narayan; Krishnan, Mayuram S.; Kompalli, Prasad

doi:10.1109/ms.2005.69

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“…Popular software process frameworks like Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and ISO 9001, detail key process areas (KPAs) for software development, and have been well-tested over the years in collocated projects. However, these frameworks were not designed keeping global development in mind and lack KPAs that address capabilities for managing distributed software projects [53]. This deficiency in well-known process frameworks is becoming increasingly critical in practice since quality of software (as opposed to cheap labor) is emerging as the primary differentiator between numerous low-cost vendors competing for outsourcing contracts worldwide.…”

Section: Process and Metrics Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A research agenda for distributed software development

Sengupta

Chandra

Sinha

2006

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering

149

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In recent years, a number of business reasons have caused software development to become increasingly distributed. Remote development of software offers several advantages, but it is also fraught with challenges. In this paper, we report on our study of distributed software development that helped shape a research agenda for this field. Our study has identified four areas where important research questions need to be addressed to make distributed development more effective. These areas are: collaborative software tools, knowledge acquisition and management, testing in a distributed set-up and process and metrics issues. We present a brief summary of related research in each of these areas, and also outline open research issues.

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Section: Process and Metrics Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A research agenda for distributed software development

Sengupta

Chandra

Sinha

2006

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering

149

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“…For each practice, we assessed its mapping to a complexity level by using the percentage occurrences of those architects' rankings which coincide with ours. We adopted a cut-off of 75% as an acceptable matching level, as recommended in previous validation studies of software engineering practices [12,13]. The data in Table III suggests our mappings matched well with the architects'.…”

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Evaluating cross-organizational ERP requirements engineering practices: a focus group study

Daneva

Ahituv

2010

2010 Fourth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)

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Abstract-This focus group study presents our first validation of practices for engineering the coordination requirements in cross organizational Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects.The study evaluates 13 practices addressing a variety of coordination aspects crucial to ERP projects. These practices are results in previously published research publications by the first author.The practices are formulated in response to practitioners' needs at ERP adopting organizations. The proposed practices have now reached the stage where we need some independent feedback as to the extent to which they fit the realities of practitioners. We perform this validation by means of a qualitative research approach, namely the focus group method.Current software engineering literature provides few examples of using focus groups in the evaluation of good software development practices. Because of this, providing reflections on our focus-group-based validation experiences will be of value to both the research community and practitioners.

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“…We decided to consider these perspectives because authors in the ERP, RE and cost estimation fields (Armour 2002;Brehm et al 2001;Costello and Liu 1995;Davenport 2000;Ebert and De Neve 2001;Herbsleb et al 2005;Ko et al 2005;Ramasubbu et al 2005;SAP SI 2004;Stamelos 2001;Stensrud and Myrtveit 2003;Summer 2000) found them useful in understanding the multifaceted nature of the cross-organizational ERP projects and the determinants of how project resources are likely to be consumed.…”

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“…The fast-changing nature of networked businesses and of their ERP requirements makes it very difficult to develop parametric models which yield high accuracy. In cross-organizational ERP settings, legacy applications developed at different times are inherited and new global software processes (Ebert and De Neve 2001;Herbsleb et al 2005;Ramasubbu et al 2005) are adopted. As a result, the nature of the ERP solutions and the resources used to create them are evolving and the requirements that serve as input to the cost estimation model become highly volatile (Costello and Liu 1995), as do the estimates that depend on them.…”

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Cost estimation for cross-organizational ERP projects: research perspectives

Daneva

Wieringa

2008

Software Qual J

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There are many methods for estimating size, effort, schedule and other cost aspects of IS projects, but only one specifically developed for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) (Stensrud, Info Soft Technol 43 (7): [413][414][415][416][417][418][419][420][421][422][423] 2001) and none for simultaneous, interdependent ERP projects in a cross-organizational context. The objective of this paper is to sketch the problem domain of cross-organizational ERP cost estimation, to survey available solutions, and to propose a research program to improve those solutions. In it, we: (i) explain why knowledge in the cost estimation of cross-organizational ERP is fragmented, (ii) assess the need to integrate research perspectives, and (iii) propose research directions that an integrated view of estimating cross-organizational ERP project cost should include.

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Leveraging Global Resources: A Process Maturity Framework for Managing Distributed Development

Cited by 69 publications

References 5 publications

A research agenda for distributed software development

A research agenda for distributed software development

Evaluating cross-organizational ERP requirements engineering practices: a focus group study

Cost estimation for cross-organizational ERP projects: research perspectives

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