Communication and knowledge building are challenging in distributed contexts: participants do not all know each other and work at different times and locations; the number of participants and their organization change during the project; participants belong to different communities. Hence, to deal with the global market place, it is critical to provide teams with distributed collaboration skill...

In the context of requirements specification in Global Software Development, aspects such as differences culture, language and schedule affect software development teams; however, we do not know effect these issues. Compare native with foreign concerning external quality. We conducted a controlled experiment one-factor two treatments within-subjects 17 experimental subjects. Wilcoxon test indic...

We present a new self-regulating methodology for coordinating distributed team work called Algorithmic Autoregulation (AA), based on recent social networking concepts and individual merit. Team members take on an egalitarian role, and stay voluntarily logged into so-called AA sessions for part of their time (e.g. 2 hours per day), during which they create periodical logs — short text sentences ...

The number of security attacks and the impact has grown considerably in recent several years. As a result, new emerging software development models are required that assist developing is secure by default. This article reviews most widely used models. It proposes Security Assurance Model (SAM) for Software Development adaptable to all contemporary scenarios, emphasizing global (GSD) vendor comp...

The phenomenon of Global Software Development (GSD) has attracted the interest businesses all over world. It brings together partners from various national and corporate cultures to develop applications with numerous advantages, including access a vast labor pool, cost savings, round clock growth. GSD, on other hand, is technologically organizationally diverse poses number obstacles for develop...

The rapid spread of the internet over last two decades has prompted more and companies to deploy their work internationally. offshoring strategy enables organizations cut down costs, boost shareholder value, acquire a competitive advantage, reduce cycle time, increase workforce flexibility, generate revenue focus on core business. number worldwide software development projects increased due glo...

While global software development (GSD) projects face cultural and time differences, the biggest challenge is communication. We studied a distributed student project with an industrial customer. The project lasted 3 months, involved 25 participants, and was distributed between the University of Victoria, Canada and Aalto University, Finland. We analyzed email communication, version control syst...

Software project management inspires and urges the spirit of software developing team members which continues until completion. Obviously, success every based on right selection that ensures to meet desired requirements any project. The fundamental aim current study is extract prioritize issues faced by vendors global development (GSD) organizations during with having complete successfully. As ...