Does distance still matter? Revisiting the CSCW fundamentals on distributed collaboration

P Bjørn, M Esbensen, RE Jensen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Managing knowledge on communication and information flow in global software projects

K Stapel, K Schneider - Expert Systems, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Communication is a key success factor of distributed software projects. Poor communication
has been identified as a main obstacle to successful collaboration. Global projects are …

Knowledge sharing in distributed agile projects: Techniques, strategies and challenges

MA Razzak, R Ahmed - 2014 Federated Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Knowledge management (KM) is essential for success in global software development.
Software organizations are now managing knowledge in innovative ways to increase …

Global software engineering: Identifying challenges is important and providing solutions is even better

MA Babar, C Lescher - Information and Software Technology, 2014 - Elsevier
Global Software Engineering (GSE) has become a mainstream trend in industry. An
increasing number of companies, irrespective of size and location, have been getting their …

" Figure out how to code with the hands of others" recognizing cultural blind spots in global software development

S Matthiesen, P Bjørn, LM Petersen - … of the 17th ACM conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We report on an ethnographic study of an outsourcing global software development (GSD)
setup between an Indian IT vendor and an IT development division of a Danish bank. We …

Knowledge4Scrum, a novel knowledge management tool for agile distributed teams

R Kevin Sungkur, M Ramasawmy - Vine, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to propose Knowledge4Scrum, a novel knowledge
management tool for agile distributed teams. Agile software development (ASD) refers to a …

Routine and standardization in global software development

M Esbensen, P Bjørn - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We present an ethnographic field study of a distributed software development team following
the Scrum methodology. During a two-week period, we observed from both sites the …

Global software development in a CSCW perspective

P Bjorn, J Bardram, G Avram, L Bannon… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Global software development (GSD) has been an im-portant research topic in the CSCW
community for more than two decades. CSCW has helped identify a significant number of …

Data collection in global software engineering research: learning from past experience

R Prikladnicki, A Boden, G Avram… - Empirical Software …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Global Software Engineering has become a standard in today's software industry.
Research in distributed software development poses severe challenges that are due to the …

Why closely coupled work matters in global software development

RE Jensen - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We report on an ethnographic study of an offshore global software development project
between Danish and Philippine developers in a Danish company called GlobalSoft. We …