CONTEXT: Offshore software development outsourcing is a modern business strategy for
developing high quality software at low cost. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research …

CONTEXT: Software development outsourcing is a contract-based relationship between
client and vendor organisations in which a client contracts out all or part of its software …

While organisations recognise the advantages offered by global software development,
many socio-technical barriers affect successful collaboration in this inter-cultural …

Communication is essential for software development as its efficiency throughout the entire
project life-cycle is a key factor in developing and releasing successful software products to …

Studying the collaborative behavior of online learning teams and how this behavior is
related to communication mode and task type is a complex process. Research about small …

In the mid 90s, a new style of software development, termed open source software (OSS)
has emerged and has originated large, mature, stable, and widely used software projects …

Software projects have crossed seas and continents looking for talented developers, moving
from local developments to geographically distributed projects. This paper presents a case …

This paper presents our preliminary results from a single case study on face-to-face, email
and instant messaging (IM) communication in a distributed agile software development …

Software development environments (IDEs) have not followed the IT industry's inexorable
trend towards distribution. They do too little to address the problems raised by today's …

This paper investigates the selection of appropriate communication media in agile global
software development. Frequent communication between project stakeholders is core to …