Virtual teams (ie, geographically distributed collaborations that rely on technology to
communicate and cooperate) are central to maintaining our increasingly globalized social …

Abstract Context Global Software Development (GSD) presents significant challenges to
share and understand knowledge required for developing software. Organizations are …

Given the relevance of coordination in the field of global software engineering, this work was
carried out to further understand coordination mechanisms. Specifically, we investigated …

Information technology is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development
of new organizational forms. Virtual teams represent one such organizational form, one that …

In the last fifteen years, academic research on information systems (IS) outsourcing has
evolved rapidly. Indeed the field of outsourcing research has grown so fast that there has …

Global sourcing is a complex area, and one that managers must get to grips with as
business investment in outsourcing continues to climb. This book provides invaluable …

Globally-distributed projects are rapidly becoming the norm for large software systems, even
as it becomes clear that global distribution of a project seriously impairs critical coordination …

Increasingly, firms source more complex and strategic as well as harder to codify information
technology projects to low-cost offshore locations. Completing such projects successfully …

This paper presents a psychological contract perspective on the use of the open source
development model as a global sourcing strategy-opensourcing, as we term it here-whereby …

Agile software development practices such as eXtreme Programming (XP) and SCRUM
have increasingly been adopted to respond to the challenges of volatile business …