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Global software development and collaboration : barriers and solutions

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: While organisations recognise the advantages offered by global software development, there are many socio-technical barriers that affect successful collaboration in this inter-cultural environment. In this paper we present a review of the global software development literature where we highlight collaboration problems experienced by a cross-section of organisations in twenty-six studies. We also look at the literature to answer how organisations are over- coming these barriers in practice. We build on our previous study on global software development where we define collaboration as four practices related to agreeing, allocating, and planning goals, objectives, and tasks among distributed teams. We found that the key barriers to collaboration are geographic, temporal, cultural, and linguistic distance; the primary solutions to overcoming these barriers include site visits, synchronous communication technology, and knowledge sharing infrastructure to capture implicit knowledge and make it explicit.

Source: University of Limerick Institutional Repository (University of Limerick)

DOI: 10.34961/9505

Authors: Noll, John, Beecham, Sarah, Richardson, Ita

Language: English

Topic: Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Partnerships for the goals, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

Funder: Science Foundation Ireland

Award: CSET ISERC: Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (ISERC)