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.

E-Mentoring in Global Software Development Teams

2014 ◽  
pp. 1534-1549
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 Role of Situational Agile Distributed Model to Support Modern Software Development Teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber Sarwar Hashmi ◽  
Yaser Hafeez ◽  
Muhammad Jamal ◽  
Sadia Ali ◽  
Naila Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Distributed Model ◽  
Architecture Model ◽  
Architecture Framework ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Software Development Teams ◽  
Communication And Coordination

ADSD (Agile Distributed Software Development) is a growing trend for software development organizations to develop quality software with limited cost and time. However, it gives rise to additional situational challenges. Situational variations result in unstable agile architecture which gets highly affected. Although the present literature focuses on agile architecture but effect of situational variation on the agile architecture still needs consideration. One possible solution is development of conceptual model and incorporation of multiple situational factors. This research study aims to identify the most relevant situations and propose situational ADSD approach for the development of situation-based software architecture framework for agile distributed projects. The study focuses on agile methods, rendering identified situational variations. The approach is developed through analyzing data from literature and their associated work documents. Comprehensive survey helps to bridge the gaps from conceptual to architecture model. The experimental results are acquired through both practical and statistical analysis. The results support Conway’s law, e.g. correlation that maps architecture with the communication and coordination needs. Correlation results show that architecture has major contribution in ADSD and validate the relationship among conceptual model and architecture model. The results also suggest that stable architecture in ADSD can positively affect the product.

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.

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