Olly GotelVidya KulkarniDes PhalMoniphal SayChristelle ScharffThanwadee SunetnantaPace UniversityUniversity of DelhiUniversite Royale de Phnom PenhInstitute of Technology of CambodiaMahidol University2018-09-132018-09-132009-06-29Proceedings of the 2nd India Software Engineering Conference, ISEC 2009. (2009), 117-1262-s2.0-67649160623https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/27498With 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.Mahidol UniversityComputer ScienceEvolving an infrastructure for student global software development projects: Lessons for industryConference PaperSCOPUS10.1145/1506216.1506239