Cultural Issues in Distributed Software Development: A Review

Mishra, Alok; Mishra, Deepti

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_45

Cited by 10 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 39 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Cultural obstacles refer not only to obvious issues, such as differences between Western and Eastern cultures, but also to different ways of understanding practices. Cultural differences have been also addressed in [25], and in [7]; this last reference is specially focused on agüe.…”

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

An exploratory study in communication in Agile Global Software Development

Yagüe

Garbajosa

Díaz

et al. 2016

Computer Standards & Interfaces

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Keywords:Global Distributed Software Development Agüe Exploratory research Tools and technologies Infrastructure Global software development (GSD) is gaining ever more relevance. Although communication is key in the exchange of information between team members, multi-site software development has introduced additional obstacles (different time-zones and cultures, IT infrastructure, etc.) and delays into the act of communication, which is already problematic. Communication is even more critical in the case of Agile Global Software Development (AGSD) in which communication plays a primary role. This paper reports an exploratory study of the effects of tools supporting communication in AGSD. More precisely, this paper analyses the perception of team members about communication infrastructures in AGSD. The research question to which this study responds concerns how development teams perceive the communication infrastructure while developing products using agile methodologies. Most previous studies have dealt with communication support from a highly technological media tool perspective. In this research work, instead, observations were obtained from three perspectives: communication among team members, communication of the status of the development process, and communication of the status of the progress of the product under development. It has been possible to show that team members perceive advantages to using media tools that make them feel in practice that teams are co-located, such as smartboards supported by effident video-tools, and combining media tools with centralized repository tools, with information from the process development and product characteristics, that allow distributed teams to effectively share information about the status of the project/process/product during the development process in order to overeóme some of the still existing problems in communication in AGSD.

show abstract

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

An exploratory study in communication in Agile Global Software Development

Yagüe

Garbajosa

Díaz

et al. 2016

Computer Standards & Interfaces

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Abufardeh and Magel (2010) showed that the research addressing the impact of the cultural and linguistic aspects of software developed in a global distributed manner is limited. Mishra and Mishra (2014) have conducted a literature review on cultural issues in GSE. They noted that the findings in the primary studies were not reported in a standard way.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An extended global software engineering taxonomy

Britto

Wohlin

Mendes

2016

J Softw Eng Res Dev

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: In Global Software Engineering (GSE), the need for a common terminology and knowledge classification has been identified to facilitate the sharing and combination of knowledge by GSE researchers and practitioners. A GSE taxonomy was recently proposed to address such a need, focusing on a core set of dimensions; however its dimensions do not represent an exhaustive list of relevant GSE factors. Therefore, this study extends the existing taxonomy, incorporating new GSE dimensions that were identified by means of two empirical studies conducted recently. Methods: To address the research questions of this study, we used evidence found through a systematic literature review and a survey. Based on literature, new dimensions were added to the existing taxonomy. Results: We identified seven dimensions to extend and incorporate into the recently proposed GSE taxonomy. The resulting extended taxonomy was later on validated by comparing it with the existing taxonomy on which the extension is built and one additional taxonomy. We also demonstrated the utility of the extended taxonomy using it to classify eight finished real GSE projects. The extended taxonomy was representative enough to classify the projects in a clear way. Conclusions:The extended taxonomy can help both researchers and practitioners by providing dimensions that can enable the description of different GSE contexts in a more comprehensive way; this can facilitate the understanding, comparison and aggregation of GSE-related findings.

show abstract

“…Project managers must recognise and understand the cultural needs of their global teams with respect to their differing organisational, geographic, national, religious, gender and power relations [26].…”

Section: Understand and Be Aware Of Cultural Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Table 2. Practices to deal with cultural differences in GSD Practice Citations Understand and be aware of cultural differences [7,8,9,11,13,19,26,25,37] Make onsite visits [6,9,12,13,19,33,37] Standardise skills required for global team members [1,10,12,19,33,35,37] Identify and establish the cultural context of each global team [8,10,11,16,19,33,35] Provide cultural training [2,8,12,19,33,35] Look out for cultural misunderstanding in Requirement [9,7,18,19,26,35] Develop and maintain cultural knowledge base [7,10,19,33,37] Assign a local manager with the skills needed for a global team [6,9,…”

Section: Understand and Be Aware Of Cultural Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the early phases of the software development process, many projects must cope with volatile and ambiguous requirements or specifications that can only be resolved through communication amongst all stakeholders. These early phases are, consequently, the most critical of the GSD process [7], and it is necessary that a sufficient understanding of specifications be reached on the vendor side before technical specification of the system begins [26].…”

Section: Look Out For Cultural Misunderstanding In Requirementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Global Software Development: Practices for Cultural Differences

Marinho

Luna

Beecham

2018

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Software development is a human-centric and socio-technical activity. The complex interaction of different values, attitudes, behavioural patterns, beliefs and Offer English language training sessions : Goal : To promote cultural understanding and facilitate communication. Who: SM; RTE; STE; Input : English Language fluency levels of all members in global team; Output : Improvement in the linguistic skills of team members.

show abstract

Cultural Issues in Distributed Software Development: A Review

Cited by 10 publications

References 39 publications

An exploratory study in communication in Agile Global Software Development

An exploratory study in communication in Agile Global Software Development

An extended global software engineering taxonomy

Global Software Development: Practices for Cultural Differences

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About