Integration Starts on Day One in Global Software Development Projects

Gotel, Olly; Kulkarni, V.; Scharff, Christelle; Neak, Long Chrea

doi:10.1109/icgse.2008.10

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“…It is important to invest on creating good collaboration practices in a GSD project right from the beginning [36]. Early experiences of collaboration may be especially influential for development of collaborative relationships later on in the project.…”

Section: Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Descriptive Analysis of Fear and Distrust in Early Phases of GSD Projects

Piri

Niinimäki

Lassenius

2009

2009 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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When globally distributed software development (GSD) is understood as knowledge intensive collaborative work, many of the reasons for problems encountered in GSD projects can be traced back to social conditions framing the collaboration between people at onsite and offsite. A total of 59 interviews were conducted in 8 GSD projects of two major software companies located in Finland. As a result of categorization of problems related to group relations in GSD projects, the lack of trust between onsite and offsite and fears of losing jobs at onsite was found as major problems in the early phases of the projects. Our analysis suggests that poorly communicated reasons GSD can cause severe problems in collaboration between people by laying the ground for fears and for distrust between sites. The study contributes to the GSD research by creating a novel empirical description of the linkages between fear and distrust in GSD.

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Section: Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Descriptive Analysis of Fear and Distrust in Early Phases of GSD Projects

Piri

Niinimäki

Lassenius

2009

2009 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering

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“…As shown in Table , “lack of communication” is the most common barrier that has appeared in 36 papers with 41% frequency. Gotel et al state that “integration potential deteriorates with communication bottlenecks.” Developer communication plays a vital role in the quality and ease of software integrations. Unfortunately, this communication is hindered by time zone and culture and language differences .…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software integration in global software development: Challenges for GSD vendors

Ilyas

Khan

2017

J Softw Evol Proc

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Context The advances in information and communication technologies have revolutionized the software development environment from local to global software development (GSD). This revolution also created challenges for vendor organizations. Vendors face challenges in integrating the components developed independently by GSD teams into a final working product. Objective The objectives of the current study is to find out those critical barriers/challenges that hinder the integration process at any stage in the GSD environment for different types and size of projects. Methodology For achieving the objectives we initially conducted a comprehensive systematic literature review (SLR). We searched 6 digital libraries and also followed the snowballing technique. The data was extracted from a total of 88 finally selected papers. Findings of the SLR study were then empirically validated through a questionnaire survey in GSD industry. A total of 96 experts from 22 different countries participated in the survey. Results We have found a total of 16 barriers/challenges among which ten barriers are ranked as critical barriers/challenges. Some of the top ranked barriers are “lack of communication,” “lack of proper documentation,” “lack of compatibility,” and “architecture mismatch.” The findings of our industrial survey are mostly coherent with the SLR findings. However, there is a difference in ranks of the various barriers/challenges across the 2 data sets (SLR and industrial survey). The identified challenges need to be properly addressed by software vendors to reduce the complexity of the integration process in GSD projects. Conclusion We found that the severity of these barriers increases in large size projects. On the other hand, bespoke products are more affected by “lack of communication,” while off‐the‐shelf–based projects face integration problems due to “lack of compatibility,” “architecture mismatch,” and “wrong off the shelf product selection and customization”.

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“…This would serve as a primary source of development in the absence of the physical presence of the customers. Sources: [10] and Experts A, E, H, I, and K.…”

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Investigating integration challenges and solutions in global software development

Zafar

Ali

Shahzad

2011

2011 Frontiers of Information Technology

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One of the major challenges of Global Software Development (GSD) is associated with overcoming integration problems that remain hidden throughout development and surface at the end of a project. Incompatibilities and other integration complexities can lead to extra costs, delays, lowered quality and even failure of a GSD project. A solid integration strategy can be an effective solution to overcome integration challenges, but this requires a good understanding of what causes failure and how the failures can be mitigated. The aim of this study is to investigate integration problems that occurred in different phases of GSD, and successful integration practices with their relative importance through an extensive literature review and a Delphi survey. As a result, a prioritized list of failure and success factors is obtained. The findings are applicable for planning new projects at an early stage of GSD or improving ongoing projects.

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Integration Starts on Day One in Global Software Development Projects

Cited by 19 publications

References 7 publications

Descriptive Analysis of Fear and Distrust in Early Phases of GSD Projects

Descriptive Analysis of Fear and Distrust in Early Phases of GSD Projects

Software integration in global software development: Challenges for GSD vendors

Investigating integration challenges and solutions in global software development

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