Understanding Collaboration in Global Software Engineering (GSE) Teams with the Use of Sensors: Introducing a Multi-sensor Setting for Observing Social and Human Aspects in Project Management

Dafoulas, Georgios A.; Maia, Cristiano Cardoso; Ali, Almaas; Augusto, Juan Carlos; Lopez-Cabrera, Victor

doi:10.1109/ie.2017.40

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“…Our view on collaborative learning is focused on how teams work together and negotiate towards constructing shared knowledge. In particular, we are in line with creating joint problem spaces, as discussed by Roschelle and Teasley [50], comprising an "emergent, socially-negotiated set of knowledge elements, such as goals, problem state descriptions and problem-solving actions. "…”

Section: Collaborative Educational Environments Incorporating Mixed Rmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…The authors are particularly interested in Stahl's terminology for phenomena at the individual, small-group and community levels [61], [62]. The existence of three levels of description caused us to consider whether the virtuality continuum must be adapted to reflect the existence of these different levels.…”

Section: Collaborative Educational Environments Incorporating Mixed Rmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Collaborative Educational Environments Incorporating Mixed Reality Technologies: A Systematic Mapping Study

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Augusto

2019

IEEE Trans. Learning Technol.

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Section: Collaborative Educational Environments Incorporating Mixed Rmentioning

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Section: Collaborative Educational Environments Incorporating Mixed Rmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative Educational Environments Incorporating Mixed Reality Technologies: A Systematic Mapping Study

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Augusto

2019

IEEE Trans. Learning Technol.

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“…Observing and understanding globally distributed team members is a crucial challenge. Streamlining and optimizing interteam and intrateam activities and communications are significant challenges 62 . GSE has changed the way of development from traditional (where all team members are co‐located) to distributed (where team members are distributed across the globe).…”

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“…Streamlining and optimizing interteam and intrateam activities and communications are significant challenges. 62 GSE has changed the way of development from traditional (where all team members are co-located) to distributed (where team members are distributed across the globe). For students, to have a deeper understanding, sole emphasis on the geographical, temporal and cultural differences may not be sufficient.…”

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Counteracting sociocultural barriers in global software engineering using group activities

Yasin

Fatima

Khan

et al. 2023

J Software Evolu Process

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In modern times, internationally organized teams face a number of coordination problems owing to their different physical operating locations. These challenges usually come in temporal, cultural, and linguistic forms. To resolve some of these issues, we need more coordination, teamwork, and shared understanding in the requirements engineering phase. Many approaches have been introduced to overcome these challenges associated with global software engineering (GSE). The objective of this research study is to introduce amateurs to GSE and improve their understanding of its associated challenges through an activity‐based learning approach. Our method is primarily targeted toward students who already have theoretical knowledge on the topic but require first‐hand experience with GSE. With the aforementioned motivation in mind, we propose, designe, and empirically evaluate two different activities that can help enhance awareness of GSE challenges. For each activity, we simulate an environment wherein participants are made to go through various constructed coordination challenges related to communication, time management, team mistrust, linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, and distribution of tasks. The effectiveness of our proposed activities, captured by the extent to which participants were able to deal with GSE challenges, was judged through various techniques including (i) observation, (ii) post activities survey questionnaire, and (iii) brainstorming and discussion. We show that the proposed activities were effective in helping students learn and further their understanding of GSE concepts. In particular, discussion sessions and survey questionnaire results reflect their ability to identify critical GSE challenges (specifically related to teams) in a simulated scenario.

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An Empirical Investigation of Factors Causing Scope Creep in Agile Global Software Development Context: A Conceptual Model for Project Managers

Aizaz

Khan

et al. 2021

IEEE Access

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Scope creep is considered one of the crucial reasons for the failure of traditional software development projects. The ability to manage and control the change elements on a project, particularly the project scope, is a key to project success. The notion of the agile process was introduced to tackle the scope change-related challenges such as scope creep. By adopting an agile-footed process, the development organizations can react to the consistent market changes and client requests. However, continuous change accommodation may negatively impact the success of the targeted project since the project manager mainly focuses on controlling scope change rather than analyzing its impact on the cost and quality. The agileprocess advocates have accepted that this situation could happen even following agile methodology, which prompts compromising the quality, postponed plans, increment cost, plan to modify, and diminished consumer loyalty. Additionally, the scope-related challenge significantly increases, especially when managing scope creep in the global software development (GSD) context. Thus, there is a need to focus on scope creep factors in the context of AGSD. Motivated by this, current work aims at identifying the factors causing scope creep in the context of AGSD. To achieve the targeted objectives, we reported the current state-of-the-art related to existing scope creep models of AGSD. We adopted SLR and empirical study to address the formulated research questions. The current study also identifies the additional challenges of scope creep from the industrial perspective. Based on the obtained results, the current work proposes a conceptual model for scope creep to assist the agile practitioners to effectively handle the scope creep, which increases the project success and forecast change control effect on a software project. Moreover, the proposed conceptual model's effectiveness is validated through expert judgment and a case study. The obtained promising results ensure the additional aspects of AGSD; hence, we could overcome the project's overall risk by implementing the proposed model.

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Understanding Collaboration in Global Software Engineering (GSE) Teams with the Use of Sensors: Introducing a Multi-sensor Setting for Observing Social and Human Aspects in Project Management

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Collaborative Educational Environments Incorporating Mixed Reality Technologies: A Systematic Mapping Study

Collaborative Educational Environments Incorporating Mixed Reality Technologies: A Systematic Mapping Study

Counteracting sociocultural barriers in global software engineering using group activities

An Empirical Investigation of Factors Causing Scope Creep in Agile Global Software Development Context: A Conceptual Model for Project Managers

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