The design structure matrix (DSM), also called the dependency structure matrix, has become
a widely used modeling framework across many areas of research and practice. The DSM …

Developer social networks (DSNs) are a tool for the analysis of community structures and
collaborations between developers in software projects and software ecosystems. Within …

Globalization is having a deep impact on today's world economy. One of the most affected
industries is the software industry. Recently, global software development (GSD) has gained …

CONTEXT: Global Software Engineering (GSE) continues to experience substantial growth
and is fundamentally different to collocated development. As a result, software managers …

Agile software development performance depends on active communication. Active
communication is an arduous task when agile teams are geographically distributed. Agile …

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

Context Global software development (GSD), although now a norm in the software industry,
carries with it enormous challenges mostly regarding communication and coordination …

Large-scale software engineering is a collaborative effort where teams need to
communicate to develop software products. Managers face the challenge of how to organise …

As an alternative solution, the Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) is a useful tool in project
scheduling when approaching information dependency issues between activities. However …

Agile methods depend on active communication and effective knowledge sharing among
team members for producing high quality working software systems in short releases and …