The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
Global Software Development (GSD) is an emerging trend in which virtual teams work on the same projects at a distance. Despite the advantages of this shift, the collaboration between distant members becomes more difficult. Team members interact by using collaborative tools, and this collaboration is affected by time, cultural and language differences. These drawbacks lead to the need to train students...
The evaluation of educational approaches is frequently challenging as it involves humans and requires the consideration of several angles depending on the educational objectives. On occasions, these objectives involve academic and industrial environments, thus implying additional challenges. Education in Global Software Development (GSD) has recently became important for companies that offer GSD training...
Universities are starting to offer courses in Global Software Development (GSD) as a way to prepare future practitioners for challenges found in organizational settings. Companies also provide GSD training especially to new recruits who might lack skills in how to effectively communicate with people from different cultures and different first languages. However this training is costly and not necessarily...
Sources of Global Software Development (GSD) information, such as academic literature, often focus on high-level issues rather than on specific problems. Researchers tend to generalize problems and solutions, however, practitioners and instructors frequently need to identify real low-level scenarios and patterns in an effort to study specific problems and their solutions. We propose a method for collecting...
This paper tackles the need for universities and practitioners to train their students and engineers in the new challenges that global software development entails, which are principally related to communication, collaboration and cultural differences. Teaching the necessary skills requires practical experience. However, training in educational environments is difficult, and some challenging issues...
From recent decades, the phenomenon of globalization is affecting the business model of companies, evolving into a global market that seeks to reduce costs, increase productivity and competitive advantage. The companies engaged in software development are no strangers to this phenomenon, and also being adapted to develop the software in a distributed way at different development teams scattered around...
The need for universities to provide their students with theoretical lessons and practical training in GSD has led to the development of new training schemes. Most of these consist of involving distant students from different cultures in the development of software projects in order to allow them to confront similar problems to those that occur in real environments. This, however, is not always possible...
In this paper we propose an educational framework for designing training courses which focus specifically on the problems entailed in Global Software Development (GSD). The main issues involved are related to cultural, language and communication problems. The principal element of the framework is VENTURE; a virtual training tool that enables learners to get immersed in realistic GSD scenarios. Using...
In recent years, the evolution of Global Software Development (GSD) has grown both rapidly and significantly, and although the efficiency of this new type of development has been proven, some challenging issues must still be confronted. Of all these, our research line is focused on designing the specific training that members of virtual teams must receive. Universities and companies therefore need...
Global Software Development (GSD) is a recent trend that allows team members to be located on different remote sites, thus forming a network of virtual teams working on the same projects which confront the typical problems caused by distance. The stakeholders involved in the project must be trained to deal with communication difficulties such as those related to cultural and language differences or...
In recent years, the application of Global Software Development (GSD) has grown significantly and its efficiency has been proven. However the collaboration between distant members is not always easy and some challenging issues must be confronted. The main problems are related with the communication with distant members, especially when cultural and language differences appear. Members involved in...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.