Paper Info
Title
Establishing a global software development course: A cultural perspective
Abstract
Global software development (GSD) is one of the main practices in software industry. The ability to outsource and manage software development at remote sites allows organizations to benefit from GSD since they get access to a wider and more economically feasible pool of developers. Recently, global software engineering courses 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 course from a cultural perspective. We examine the different challenges related to team-setting, grading, communication tools, gender issues and associated risks. A discussion of how cultural differences may affect setting up the course is included. The uniqueness of the proposed research lies in two main areas: it examines collaboration between Kuwait, USA and Poland; and it investigates the proposed topics from a cultural perspective.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/FIE.2013.6685126
FIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
dp industry,computer science education,cultural aspects,gender issues,groupware,risk analysis,software development management,gsd,associated risks,collaborative global software engineering course,communication tools,cultural perspective,global software development course,software industry,global software engineering,computer education
Software Engineering Process Group,Personal software process,Software analytics,Engineering management,Software peer review,Knowledge management,Software project management,Software development process,Engineering,Software development,Social software engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0190-5848
4
0.44
References 
Authors
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amir Zeid1112.22
Rehab El-Bahey2101.78