Paper Info
Title
How Globally Distributed Software Teams Can Improve Their Collaboration Effectiveness?
Abstract
While advanced collaboration tools are available in the market, feedback from organizations suggests a sub-optimal use and insufficient value leveraged from these tools. Our research focuses on identifying patterns of collaboration among distributed team members by mapping the interaction scenarios and associated goals, task contexts, success factors and constraints of collaboration with the choice of mechanisms used. Based on this analysis and utilizing a Goal Oriented Collaboration Strategy Framework, we analyze the effectiveness of collaboration mechanisms in specific scenarios involving a multi-geo, multi-cultural and multi-organization software development project. We recommend a planning based approach that identifies a basket of collaboration practices and tool features that distributed teams should use to enhance their collaboration effectiveness. We believe this research will not only help distributed software teams to improve their effectiveness but will also provide insights to tool vendors for appropriate tool design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICGSE.2011.30
Global Software Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
software team,tool feature,collaboration effectiveness,tool vendor,multi-organization software development project,appropriate tool design,advanced collaboration tool,collaboration practice,collaboration mechanism,software teams,sub-optimal use,goal orientation,collaboration,parallel programming,groupware
Personal software process,Systems engineering,Project management 2.0,Software peer review,Collaborative software,Knowledge management,Software project management,Engineering,Team software process,Software development,Distributed computing,Social software engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-4503-5
5
0.48
References 
Authors
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mayank Gupta111810.60
Jude Fernandez2263.36