Paper Info
Title
Conducting Qualitative Research in an International and Distributed Research Team: Challenges and Lessons Learned
Abstract
In this paper, we discuss challenges for planning and executing qualitative research conducted by an international research project team. The study comprised an exploratory examination of strategies of offshoring and onshoring for software development. An important methodological challenge is that the members of the research team live in different countries, rely on different languages and originate from different cultures. These challenges are in many ways analogous to those inherent in the subject we are researching, distributed software development. To explore these issues, we present the difficulties we faced on collecting and analyzing the qualitative data. Our main contribution is the identification of challenges, strategies to overcome them, and a set of lessons learned.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/HICSS.2008.97
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
exploratory examination,qualitative data,different culture,research team,software development,qualitative research,different country,international research project team,important methodological challenge,different language,lessons learned,conducting qualitative research,outsourcing,planning,software engineering
Personal software process,Qualitative property,Computer science,Software peer review,Knowledge management,Project team,Software development process,Qualitative research,Team software process,Management science,Social software engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-3075-8
3
0.38
References 
Authors
20
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rafael Prikladnicki184086.35
Roberto Evaristo212211.13
Daniela Damian32144119.80
Jorge L. N. Audy4704.81