Paper Info
Title
Bridging cultural differences: a grounded theory perspective
Abstract
Cultural differences often arise in distributed software development. The impact of cultural differences on distributed teams is under-explored. The lack of knowledge of cultural differences can cause major problems to the distributed teams. We have conducted a Grounded Theory study to uncover the strategies adopted by Agile practitioners to overcome the cultural differences in distributed software development. We interviewed 18 Agile practitioners across 10 software companies in the USA and India over a period of 1.5 years. In this paper, we report that our participants adopt five effective strategies to bridge cultural differences in distributed Agile software development: engendering cultural awareness, understanding cultural differences, sharing work practices, rotating team ambassadors, and managing language barriers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1953355.1953357
ISEC
Keywords
Field
DocType
software company,effective strategy,major problem,software development,theory perspective,language barrier,cultural difference,agile practitioner,agile software development,grounded theory study,cultural awareness,grounded theory,cultural differences
Grounded theory,Language barrier,Cultural competence,Systems engineering,Bridging (networking),Knowledge management,Cultural diversity,Agile software development,Software,Distributed software development,Engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.63
20
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Siva Dorairaj1684.12
James Noble21683163.52
Petra Malik31036.47