Project managers in global software development teams: a study of the effects on productivity and performance

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios ◽  
Cristina Casado-Lumbreras ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta ◽  
Francisco José García-Peñalvo ◽  
Edmundo Tovar
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Software Development Teams ◽  
And Performance

E-Mentoring in Global Software Development Teams

2013 ◽  
pp. 160-175
Author(s):  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios ◽  
Alok Mishra ◽  
Cristina Casado-Lumbreras ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Software Development Teams ◽  
Communication And Coordination ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Correct Application

Global Software Development (GSD) teams face communication and coordination problems due to spatial, temporal, and cultural separation between team members. Cultural diversity and cross-cultural management are significant issues among GSD teams. In software development projects, mentoring dramatically reduces the learning curve for novice human resources. Due to the large amount of electronic communication instruments, a remarkable number of different e-Mentoring concepts have emerged, which provides opportunity for mentoring that would not otherwise be possible. This chapter presents key success factors to enable e-Mentoring as a tool to develop a common culture in GSD scenarios. These success factors enable the correct application of mentoring programmes and the use of this to build a common culture in organizations that perform GSD.

A Requirement Elicitation Methodology for Global Software Development Teams

2011 ◽  
pp. 3273-3282
Author(s):  
Gabriela N. Aranda ◽  
Aurora Vizcaíno ◽  
Alejandra Cechich ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Requirement Elicitation ◽  
Development Team ◽  
Cognitive Characteristics ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Elicitation Process ◽  
Software Development Teams

Failures during the elicitation process have been usually attributed to the difficulty of the development team in working on a cooperative basis (Togneri, Falbo, & de Menezes, 2002), but today there are other points that have to be considered. In order to save costs, modern software organizations tend to have their software development team geographically distributed, so distance between members becomes one of the most important issues added to the traditional problems of the requirement elicitation process (Brooks, 1987; Loucopoulos & Karakostas, 1995). So far, literature has widely analysed real life Global Software Development (GSD) projects and pointed out the main problems that affect such environments, especially related to communication. As a complementary view, we have focused our research on analysing how cognitive characteristics can affect people interaction in GSD projects, especially during the requirement elicitation process, where communication becomes crucial. In this article, we present the main characteristics of requirements elicitation in GSD projects and introduce a cognitive-based requirement elicitation methodology for such environments.

scholarly journals Beyond Subjectiviness: Assessing Abilities and Preferences to Create Software Development Teams

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Alves ◽  
Vinícius Ricardo ◽  
Laerte Xavier
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Specific Task ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Software Development Teams ◽  
Performance Issues

The creation of software development teams that are affected by performance issues is a problem frequently observed in companies in the software development market. This process is commonly done through subjective methodologies. Such methodologies can be influenced by interpersonal relationships and susceptible to human error. This paper proposes a quantitative and data-oriented alternative to the process of forming workgroups through the use of a genetic algorithm capable of optimizing collaborator’s abilities and preferences when executing a specific task within a project. As a result, we show that the use of such genetic algorithm is able to create teams similar to the teams assembled by the project managers of companies in the industry of software engineering. Therefore, the ability of genetic algorithm on supporting the process of develoment teams assembly becomes evident.

Trust Building Process for Global Software Development Teams: A review from the Literature

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Hernández-López ◽  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios ◽  
Ángel García-Crespo ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Site Development ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Team Environment ◽  
New Process ◽  
Software Development Teams

Due to increasing globalization tendencies in organization environment, Software Development is evolving from a single site development to multiple localization team environment. In this new scenario, team building issues must be revisited. In this paper components needed for the construction of the Trust Building Process are proposed in these new Global Software Development Teams. Based in a thoroughly state of the art analysis of trust building in organizations, this new process comes to narrow the gap between dynamics of trust building and intrinsic characteristics of global teams. In this paper, the components for Trust Building Process are justified and presented, with the purpose of a future assembly in further publications, leaving testing of this assembly far behind.

Trust Building Process for Global Software Development Teams. A review from the Literature

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Hernández-López ◽  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios ◽  
Ángel García-Crespo ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Software Development Teams

Trust Building Process for Global Software Development Teams

2014 ◽  
pp. 864-882
Author(s):  
Adrián Hernández-López ◽  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios ◽  
Ángel García-Crespo ◽  
Pedro Soto-Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Global Software Development ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Site Development ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Team Environment ◽  
New Process ◽  
Software Development Teams

Due to increasing globalization tendencies in organization environment, Software Development is evolving from a single site development to multiple localization team environment. In this new scenario, team building issues must be revisited. In this paper components needed for the construction of the Trust Building Process are proposed in these new Global Software Development Teams. Based in a thoroughly state of the art analysis of trust building in organizations, this new process comes to narrow the gap between dynamics of trust building and intrinsic characteristics of global teams. In this paper, the components for Trust Building Process are justified and presented, with the purpose of a future assembly in further publications, leaving testing of this assembly far behind.

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