Successful Global Development of a Large-scale Embedded Telecommunications Product

In Strangers We Trust? Findings of an Empirical Study of Distributed Teams

“…While trust can be established early in collocated teams this is not necessary true with distributed teams [32]. There is also often an assumption of trust and subsequent strategies are developed based on that assumption [16]. This report's primary focus is on trust amongst distributed developers.…”

A Canvas for Establishing Global Software Development Collaborations

“…Referring to the O↵shore outsourcing model, the strategy with one core product and full onsite ownership where the o↵shore partner is responsible for allocated tasks in the product development lifecycle is considered to be most suitable [36,41,45]. In contrast, the model of O↵shore insourcing can be based on a product line architecture with variants which are built on top of a core product.…”

“…Such a well-defined work package structure promises to ease work transfer between locations and to achieve low dependencies between locations during actual implementation work [7,8,12,14,20,26,[36][37][38][39][40][41]. This way it might be possible to reduce communication and coordination needs between di↵erent locations.…”

“…Such a variant can be customized and market-specific. In this model the o↵shore site has a great responsibility for the whole product variant, and thereby global collaboration might have a form of peer-to-peer partnership [26,36]. The Innovative o↵shoring scenario is intended for the development of new innovative products or prototypes by the o↵shore site with di↵erent possibilities of product ownership boundaries depending on the initial collaboration goals and model.…”

“…Numerous studies based on industrial project investigations report the importance of communication in the GSD context and usually come to the conclusion that it is the number-one problem. Studies focusing on communication include the study by Mettovaara et al in Nokia and Philips [25], the case study by Leszak and Meier on embedded product development in the telecommunications domain in Alcatel-Lucent between Germany and China [36], the study by Paasivaara and Lassenius based on interviews in 8 global software projects distributed across Europe, North America and Asia [24], and the study by Oshri et al at LeCroy (Switzerland and USA), SAP (India and Germany), and Baan (India and The Netherlands) [30].…”