Title
Multicultural Software Development: The Productivity Perspective
Abstract
Productivity management is a challenge for software engineering companies and, in this regard, there is a current trend toward globalization. Via acquisitions and mergers, business has become international and employs different national cultures. Therefore, the focus of this article is on the understanding of cultural differences affecting productivity in globalized software production. The relation between productivity and non coding activities in software development projects has not been proven. Software development is expert work, typically made in closely collaborating local teams and global distribution of expert work increases the degree of difficulty. In this paper, the authors analyze multicultural ICT companies from their productivity perspective through the lens of cultural differences. The purpose of this study is to report findings based on general cultural studies and reported experiences that seem to affect productivity in the software industry. Some company cases are also described and analyzed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.4018/jitpm.2011010102
IJITPM
Keywords
DocType
Volume
multicultural software development,general cultural study,software industry,software engineering company,software development project,globalized software production,software development,productivity management,productivity perspective,expert work,cultural difference,culture,software engineering,multicultural,project management
Journal
2
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1938-0232
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.67
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Heli Aramo-Immonen1387.66
Hannu Jaakkola230260.55
Harri Keto3125.02