Evolving an infrastructure for student global software development projects: lessons for industry
Issued Date
2009
Resource Type
Language
eng
ISBN
9781605584263
Rights Holder(s)
Scopus
Suggested Citation
Vidya Kulkarni, Des Phal, Moniphal Say, Christelle Scharff, Thanwadee Sunetnanta, ธันวดี สุเนตนันท์ (2009). Evolving an infrastructure for student global software development projects: lessons for industry. doi:10.1145/1506216.1506239 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/10432
Title
Evolving an infrastructure for student global software development projects: lessons for industry
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Abstract
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 cultural
boundaries 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.
Description
The 2nd India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC’09), February 23 - 26, 2009, Pune, India