Paper Info
Title
Philips experiences in global distributed software development
Abstract
Global software development is increasingly common. Main expected benefits are improvements in time-to-market efficiency and access to greater--and less costly--resources. A number of problems are still to be solved before the full potential of global development can be obtained. This paper describes the experience of over 10 years of global distributed development at Philips, derived from about 200 projects. We discuss the experience and lessons learnt from multi-site development. Main lessons learned are that explicit agreements and ways of working should be defined for the following areas needing the most attention; team coordination and communication, requirements and architectures, integration, and configuration management. In addition, we discuss the experience gained from subcontracting software development to suppliers. Main lesson learned from subcontracting software development is the need for explicit attention and ways of working with respect to selection of suppliers, specification of the work to be subcontracted and establishment and content of the contract.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/s10664-007-9047-3
Empirical Software Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
explicit attention,explicit agreement,main expected benefit,philips experience,philips .software development .globally distributed software,lessons learnt,global software development,global development,subcontracting software development,multi-site development,main lesson,configuration management,software development
Personal software process,Systems engineering,Computer science,Software peer review,Package development process,Lean software development,Distributed development,Software development process,Team software process,Software development
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
6
1573-7616
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
43
1.36
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rob Kommeren1452.41
Päivi Parviainen2937.14