Global software development in practice lessons learned

Global software development in practice lessons learned

More than a decade ago organizations began to experiment with remotely located software development facilities seeking lower costs and access to skilled resources. This change is having a profound impact not only on marketing and distribution but also on the way products are conceived, designed, constructed, tested, and delivered to customers. The number of organizations distributing their soft...

Software Carpentry: lessons learned

Over the last 15 years, Software Carpentry has evolved from a week-long training course at the US National Laboratories into a worldwide volunteer effort to raise standards in scientific computing. This article explains what we have learned along the way, the challenges we now face, and our plans for the future.

Lessons Learned in Virtual Teams from Global Software Development NAME S. CHINBAT

Increasing globalization has strongly urged software organizations to lower software development costs and access to best skilled resources, which lead using of global software development team as one of many possible solutions. More and more software companies have become multinational and used benefits of offshore insourcing, outsourcing and virtual software development team in order to incre...

Lessons Learned In Implementing Agile Software Development Metrics

The conventional software metrics are not directly adaptable to agile approach due to their intrinsic differences in the focus, goals and process of software development. Subsequently, this paper examines the current state of agile-metrics initiatives in a specific product line of a multinational technology company. Using qualitative interviews based data from five stakeholders the study examin...

Some Lessons Learned in Transitioning to OO Software Development