Publication: Evolving an infrastructure for student global software development projects: Lessons for industry
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2009-06-29
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Mahidol University
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Proceedings of the 2nd India Software Engineering Conference, ISEC 2009. (2009), 117-126
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Olly Gotel, Vidya Kulkarni, Des Phal, Moniphal Say, Christelle Scharff, Thanwadee Sunetnanta Evolving an infrastructure for student global software development projects: Lessons for industry. Proceedings of the 2nd India Software Engineering Conference, ISEC 2009. (2009), 117-126. doi:10.1145/1506216.1506239 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/27498
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Evolving an infrastructure for student global software development projects: Lessons for industry
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With the rapid increase in offshore outsourcing of software development, Global Software Development (GSD) has become the need of the hour. Today's information technology, in the form of communication networks and tooling opportunities, provides us with a supposedly ready infrastructure to support GSD. However, selecting an appropriate combination of tools that cross culturalb oundaries and account for unique in-country connectivity situations is not a trivial task. In this paper, we describe our experience of evolving an infrastructure for student GSD projects over a period of four years, culminating in an environment to accommodate the needs of five different teams from four globally dispersed universities in countries straddling many technological divides. We suggest that our experience offers lessons that can also support those organizations embarking upon GSD initiatives and with their own infrastructure decisions to make. Copyright 2009 ACM.