Paper Info
Title
Establishing a globally distributed software development system in academic settings: An ergonomic perspective
Abstract
Global software development is increasingly becoming common practice in the software industry. The ability to develop software at remote sites allows organizations to ignore geographic distances and to benefit from access to a rich resource pool at reduced costs. Recently, global software engineering projects are being introduced at academic institutes as part of computer science and software engineering degree requirements. There are many challenges associated with managing and executing globally distributed software projects in academic settings. In this paper, we will attempt to analyze the framework and components of a collaborative global software engineering system in academic settings from an ergonomic perspective. In our analysis we will apply the Concentric Ring Model to conduct the analysis. This model will allow us to examine the different challenges pertaining to users, machines, workspace, environment and the interlacing factors like time zones, cultural diversity of users, location barriers, in addition to gender issues which are particularly pertinent to Kuwait. The uniqueness of the proposed research lies in two main areas: it examines collaboration between Kuwait and the US; and it investigates the proposed topics from an ergonomic perspective.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/IPCC.2013.6623936
Professional Communication Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer science education,cultural aspects,distributed processing,educational institutions,ergonomics,gender issues,groupware,project management,software development management,Kuwait,US,academic institutes,academic settings,collaborative global software engineering system,computer science degree requirements,concentric ring model,ergonomic perspective,gender issues,geographic distances,global software engineering projects,globally distributed software development system,globally distributed software project management,interlacing factors,location barriers,organizations,software engineering degree requirements,software industry,time zones,user cultural diversity,Ergonomics,Kuwait,global software engineering,higher education,sociotechnical interaction
Software Engineering Process Group,Personal software process,Software analytics,Computer science,Software peer review,Knowledge management,Software project management,Software development,Software requirements,Social software engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2158-091X
978-1-4799-0010-7
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rehab El-Bahey1101.78
Amir Zeid211813.80