Managing software development in globally distributed teams

Cusumano, Michael A.

doi:10.1145/1314215.1314218

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“…It is also observed that 'Different software development practices and standards followed by multiple teams' impact the software quality in Distributed Agile projects. Team members with different backgrounds, regions have different preference for development practices, tools and engineering practices which leads to rework (Cusumano, 2008). Distributed teams also suffer from a risk of 'Inconsistency in design standards of distributed teams' due to the involvement of multiple teams belonging to distinct organizations.…”

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A Goal-driven Risk Management approach for Distributed Agile Development Projects

Shrivastava¹,

Rathod²

2019

AJIS

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Software companies are now using Distributed Agile Development (DAD) in order to create high quality solutions, which aligns with the business priorities of lesser time and cost. Although, DAD is beneficial, there are significant risks involved in such projects. In order to minimize the adverse effect of risks on DAD projects, it is imperative to understand, how the risks impact the project performance goals including ‘Time’, ‘Cost’ and ‘Quality’. In this paper we present a goal driven approach for managing risks in DAD projects. This approach of risk management will enable project managers to identify the most important risks with respect to the goal to be achieved and focus on managing those risks first. The study shows that if ‘Time’ is a considered goal for a DAD project, the most important risks that would need consideration are related to requirement management, architecture changes and coordination issues between stakeholders. Similarly, if ‘Quality’ is the primary performance goal in a DAD project, it would be necessary to first deal with risks related to internal and external communication in the organization, team collaboration and requirement documentation availability. The awareness of top ranking risk factors that impact a particular project goal will assist the projects managers to control the risks in a way that the desired project goals can be achieved.

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Section: Impact Of Risk Factors On Project Qualitymentioning

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A Goal-driven Risk Management approach for Distributed Agile Development Projects

Shrivastava¹,

Rathod²

2019

AJIS

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“…The GSD is challenging due to prevalence of co-ordination and communication issues (e.g. Avritzer et al, 2010;Casey and Richardson, 2009;Conchuir et al, 2009;Cusumano, 2008;García-Crespo et al, 2010). There could be loss of communication richness (physical distance, time zone, and domain expertise), co-ordination breakdown (software architecture, integration and configuration management), geographical dispersion (vendor support, governmental issue) and loss of team-ness (feeling of belonging in the team) in GSD (Battin et al, 2001).…”

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A study of software development project cost, schedule and quality by outsourcing to low cost destination

Mishra

Mahanty

2016

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find good values of onsite-offshore team strength; number of hours of communication between business users and onsite team and between onsite and offshore team so as to reduce project cost and improve schedule in a global software development (GSD) environment for software development project. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs system dynamics simulation approach to study software project characteristics in both co-located and distributed development environments. The authors consulted 14 experts from Indian software outsourcing industry during our model construction and validation. Findings – The study results show that there is a drop in overall team productivity in outsourcing environment by considering the offshore options. But the project cost can be reduced by employing the offshore team for coding and testing work only with minimal training for imparting business knowledge. The research results show that there is a potential to save project cost by being flexible in project schedule. Research limitations/implications – The implication of the study is that the project management team should be careful not to keep high percentage of manpower at offshore location in distributed software environment. A large offshore team can increase project cost and schedule due to higher training overhead, lower productivity and higher error proneness. In GSD, the management effort should be to keep requirement analysis and design work at onsite location and involves the offshore team in coding and testing work. Practical implications – The software project manager can use the model results to divide the software team between onsite and offshore location during various phases of software development in distributed environment. Originality/value – The study is novel as there is little attempt at finding the team distribution between onsite and offshore location in GSD environment.

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“…In order to mitigate these effects, and with the aim of achieving higher levels of productivity, organizations require new technologies, processes, and methods [13] through improvements related to the software life cycle, project planning, estimations, risks management, quality assurance, infrastructures, team skills, and the division of responsibilities with the aim of supporting collaboration, coordination, and communication among developers [14]. Iterative approaches are commonly used in contrast to traditional waterfall or sequential methods but these become more difficult to use consistently when teams are geographically distributed [15].…”

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Challenges and Improvements in Distributed Software Development: A Systematic Review

Jiménez¹,

Piattini

Vizcaíno

2009

Advances in Software Engineering

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Distributed Software Development (DSD) has recently evolved, resulting in an increase in the available literature. Organizations now have a tendency to make greater development efforts in more attractive zones. The main advantage of this lies in a greater availability of human resources in decentralized zones at less cost. There are, however, some disadvantages which are caused by the distance that separates the development teams. Coordination and communication become more difficult as the software components are sourced from different places, thus affecting project organization, project control, and product quality. New processes and tools are consequently necessary. This work presents the findings of a systematic review of the literature related to the challenges concerning Distributed Software Development, whose purpose is to identify the solutions and improvements proposed up to the present day.

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Managing software development in globally distributed teams

Abstract: Surveying the basic elements needed for globally distributed teams to function smoothly and efficiently.

Cited by 39 publications

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A Goal-driven Risk Management approach for Distributed Agile Development Projects

A Goal-driven Risk Management approach for Distributed Agile Development Projects

A study of software development project cost, schedule and quality by outsourcing to low cost destination

Challenges and Improvements in Distributed Software Development: A Systematic Review

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