Given the relevance of coordination in the field of global software engineering, this work was
carried out to further understand coordination mechanisms. Specifically, we investigated …

Does distance still matter? Reporting on a comparative analysis of four ethnographic studies
of global software development, this article analyzes the fundamental aspects of distance as …

Organizational factors influence the success of security initiatives in software development.
Security audits and developer training can motivate development teams to adopt security …

This paper examines how working in the global labour market of Amazon Mechanical Turk
(AMT) impacts upon and is understood by two different groups of workers. To do this we …

While CSCW researchers have studied collaboration across distance for more than two
decades, the scale and context of geographically distributed work during the pandemic is …

What happens when agile methods are introduced in global outsourcing set-ups? Agile
methods are designed to empower IT developers in decision-making through self-managing …

Effective coordination is the key to successful agile teams. They rely on frequent interactions
and mutual adjustment to manage dependencies between activities, which traditionally has …

Online labour platforms promise efficient, low-friction matching of workers with clients at
scale and on-demand. Prior studies on Upwork have shown that the combination of …

We report on an ethnographic study of an outsourcing global software development (GSD)
setup between a Danish IT company and an Indian IT vendor developing a system to …

Prior research documents how the use of national cultural differences when used as an
argument for failed collaboration is problematic and makes information technology (IT) …