Abstract In Global Software Development (GSD), the additional complexity caused by global
distance requires processes to ease collaboration difficulties, reduce communication …

Context Lack of coordination may create significant problems between work teams, this
problem is even most critical when team workers are geographically distributed as it results …

Ample evidence in the literature emphasizes using socio-technical congruence (STC) to
address coordination issues in distributed software development. The recent decades have …

We report on a large-scale empirical study investigating the relevance of socio-technical
congruence over key basic software quality metrics, namely, bugs and churn. In particular …

All kinds of software projects, whether open or closed source, rely on open source
components. Repositories that serve open source components to organizations, such as the …

Seeking the advantages delivered by agile methods in small-scale software development,
large organisations are also adopting agile methods. However, scaling results in a huge …

Understanding the evolution of communities in developer social networks (DSNs) around
open source software (OSS) projects can provide valuable insights about the socio-technical …

In large-scale open-source software projects, where developers are often distributed across
the entire planet, coordination among developers is crucial. To estimate whether a state of …

Developing efficient and effective decision making support includes identifying means to
reduce repeated manual work and providing possibilities to take advantage of the …

Software development is a critical task that depends on coordination among team members
and organizational activities that bring team members together. The literature indicates that …