After more than a decade of research in Global Software Engineering (GSE), organisations
have a wealth of practices that they can draw on to support them in their global development …

This paper contributes to the field by applying the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) for
building a model, which improves the understanding of the role of project set-up and …

Cultural impact is significant in global or distributed software development. Due to cultural
differences, co-ordination and collaboration problems have been reported in case studies …

Background–In global software projects, potential customers could be situated in another
department within the same organization or in other parts of the world. In both …

Software development is essentially a collaborative, socio-technical endeavor where the
interplay between stakeholders and technical elements is integral. This synergy becomes …

Culturally diverse teams are becoming the norm with the rising trend of globalization. The
phenomenon has been associated with a rise in the number of multicultural teams with …

Agile processes potentially ease distributed software development by demanding regular
communication and self-management of virtual team members. However, being designed …

Companies are increasingly organizing work in globally distributed teams. A core challenge
to these distributed teams is, however, to maintain social relationships due to limited …

This book focusses on the identification of communication risks, their causes and effects and
the practices to mitigate the risks from both state of the art and state of the practice …

This paper presents the results of a four-month ethnographically-informed study that we
performed at a vendor organization in India to understand how culture influences global …