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Follow-the-sun is an approach to develop software by handing off the progress to different time zones as the day passes. Hence, this approach allows companies to work on a project 24 hours a day, potentially reducing its time-to-market. However, several challenges, such as time zone differences or handing off work, are often reported. In this paper, we describe a case study on a follow-the-sun approach...
We conducted a qualitative study to investigate the main aspects related to the development and management of applications (or apps) for smart and mobile devices. Is investigation is composed of two main steps and its context is the so ware industry. In the rst step, we interviewed so ware managers with experience in the context of app development and management. Is part of our study can be intended...
Software start-ups are a new and relatively unexplored field for software engineering researchers. However, conducting empirical studies with start-ups is difficult. Start-ups produce very little "hard" evidence, thus data collection methods are limited to interviews and surveys. These methods come with their limitations, namely interview studies are not scalable to a large number of companies,...
Continuous and long-term collaboration between industry and academia is crucial to develop front-line research in context-dependent areas like software development where both practitioners and researchers are searched for data collection, analysis and results. Despite many mutual benefits, this collaboration is often challenging, not only due to different goals, but also because of different pace...
Global Software Engineering (GSE) is a reality for even the smallest companies, so software engineering students need to learn how to work in a globally distributed development context. Many approaches to teaching GSE have been described in the literature. Since the majority of software development is done by engineers working in small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs) we now ask: Are today's students...
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a popular way for universities to deliver quality course content to a global audience. Furthermore, a MOOC specialization offers a series of related such courses with a capstone component. Typical software engineering capstone projects in campus courses involve teamwork and creating software. Within such a context, students experience the software development...
Due to the fact that software development is a product of team effort it is important to investigate the influence of group developmental psychology on software development performance. In this case study we wanted to test how performance (i.e. velocity and planning effectiveness) are related to the group's maturity level. We gave the Group Development Questionnaire (the GDQ) to 19 software developers...
This paper reports the initial result of a qualitative research on how to support customisation of SaaS (Software as a Service). The research follows the grounded theory method, and investigates the expectation of consultants who are specialized in customising enterprise software systems. The resulting theory contributes to the understanding of how customisation on SaaS differs from the traditional...
The traditional role of the teacher as holder of all wisdom has been put in question, at least in some circles, in the last few years. Changes brought on by Millennials, a new generation of students both eager to collaborate and restless, the ubiquitous overflow of information, the rise of agility, the proliferation of new teaching methodologies, and profound shifts in technology have generated alternatives...
In order for the conduct of collaborative research projects and their outcomes to be valuable for both research and practice it is necessary to successfully address a number of socio-technical challenges in the field of software engineering. Collaborative research involving researchers and practitioners related to software systems have utilised a variety of different research approaches. Adoption...
In Brazil, software industry and academia have formed partnerships more often due to funding agencies and tax incentives originated, for example, from Brazil's Informatics Law. Like in many relationships, each party brings different experiences, and goals to be achieved. However, for a partnership to be successful, it is necessary to learn how to deal with these differences, respecting the limits...
The software engineering industry should be the laboratory of much, perhaps most, of the empirical software engineering research. Not only would this create a more realistic context and higher external validity of the empirical research, it would also ease the result transfer and make the results more convincing for the industry. Unfortunately, this is currently not the case. About 90% of software...
Getting companies involved in and committed to empirical research projects is a major challenge for many researchers. This paper discusses several cases of lessons learned about how to involve and get the commitment of companies in different types of empirical research projects. This paper will discuss the experiences of two very large consortium projects and one medium-size research project. In addition,...
This paper presents a three-year participant observation in which the author acted as CTO of a software startup, spanning more than 9,000 hours of direct experience. The author's emails and diary reflections were analyzed and synthesized into a set of nine claims about software engineering work. These claims help shape software engineering research, practice, and education by provoking new questions...
Agile software development principles enable companies to successfully and quickly deliver software by meeting their customers' expectations while focusing on high quality. Many companies working with pure software systems have adopted these principles, but implementing them in companies dealing with non-pure software products is challenging. We identified a set of goals and practices to support large-scale...
This paper reports on a Delphi-like study about the Italian banking IT sector's greatest concerns. A new research framework was developed to pursue this vertical study: domain and country specific, using a Mixed Methods approach. Data collection was drawn in four phases starting with a high level randomly stratified panel of 13 senior managers and then a target-panel of 124 carefully selected and...
Software crowdsourcing emerged from the crowdsourcing concept and inherited most of features from it. However, it adapted its nature according to the requirements of software engineering techniques and technologies. Therefore, it is important to understand the detailed elucidation of software crowdsourcing. This paper introduces the connotation of CROWD (Community, Remoteness, Open-call, Web, Diversity)...
Storytelling is an important but often underestimated practice in software engineering. Whereas existing research widely regards storytelling as creating a common understanding between developers and users, we argue that storytelling and prototyping are intertwined practices for innovators to persuade decision makers. Based on a two-year qualitative case study in two innovating software firms, we...
It is a common belief that, if you want to do research in industry, you should follow one of two ways: you either work for a large corporation, or you work for a startup that will eventually be acquired by one large corporation. In this presentation we address the following question: is it possible and worthwhile to develop meaningful research in an SMB (small and medium-sized business)? In doing...
Job Rotation is an organizational practice in which individuals are frequently moved from a job (or project) to another in the same organization. Studies in other areas have found that this practice has both negative and positive effects on individuals’ work. However, there are only few studies addressing this issue in software engineering so far. The goal of our study is to investigate the effects...
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