Increased popularity of global software engineering (GSE) has resulted in quite a number of
research and industrial studies. As the area matures, an increased focus on empirically …

In globally distributed software development, does it matter being agile rather than
structured? To answer this question, this paper presents an extensive case study that …

The ever-increasing demand for more complex products and services has led to an
increased need for engineering teams. Despite this increase, available literature on …

Context: Software projects frequently incur schedule and budget overruns. Planning and
estimation are particularly challenging in large and globally distributed agile projects. While …

In this paper, we examined the impact of project-level configurational choices of globally
distributed software teams on project productivity, quality, and profits. Our analysis used data …

Follow the sun (FTS) has interesting appeal—hand off work at the end of every day from one
site to the next, many time zones away, in order to speed up product development. Although …

The combination of scale and distribution in software projects makes the onboarding of new
developers problematic. To the best of our knowledge, there is no research on the …

We conducted interviews with sixteen members of teams that worked across global time
zone differences. Despite time zone differences of about eight hours, collaborators still found …

Software development is an intense collaborative process where success depends on the
ability to create, share and integrate information. Given the trend towards globalization in the …

Past research on software development outsourcing has explored in some detail the client's
perspective and its attendant performance issues. However, relatively few studies have …