Does distributed development affect software quality?: an empirical case study of Windows Vista
Communications of the ACM - A Blind Person's Interaction with Technology
Does distributed development affect software quality? An empirical case study of Windows Vista
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Using Developer Activity Data to Enhance Awareness during Collaborative Software Development
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
On the Use of Handover Checkpoints to Manage the Global Software Development Process
OTM '09 Proceedings of the Confederated International Workshops and Posters on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: ADI, CAMS, EI2N, ISDE, IWSSA, MONET, OnToContent, ODIS, ORM, OTM Academy, SWWS, SEMELS, Beyond SAWSDL, and COMBEK 2009
Assessments in global software development: a tailorable framework for industrial projects
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
A review of awareness in distributed collaborative software engineering
Software—Practice & Experience - Focus on Selected PhD Literature Reviews in the Practical Aspects of Software Technology
Automatic status updates in distributed software development
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering
Software quality management improvement through mentoring: an exploratory study from GSD projects
OTM'11 Proceedings of the 2011th Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems
Offshore insourcing in software development: Structuring the decision-making process
Journal of Systems and Software
Distributed development considered harmful?
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Software quality across borders: Three case studies on company internal alignment
Information and Software Technology
Risks and risk mitigation in global software development: A tertiary study
Information and Software Technology
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Global software development is increasingly common. Main expected benefits are improvements in time-to-market efficiency and access to greater--and less costly--resources. A number of problems are still to be solved before the full potential of global development can be obtained. This paper describes the experience of over 10 years of global distributed development at Philips, derived from about 200 projects. We discuss the experience and lessons learnt from multi-site development. Main lessons learned are that explicit agreements and ways of working should be defined for the following areas needing the most attention; team coordination and communication, requirements and architectures, integration, and configuration management. In addition, we discuss the experience gained from subcontracting software development to suppliers. Main lesson learned from subcontracting software development is the need for explicit attention and ways of working with respect to selection of suppliers, specification of the work to be subcontracted and establishment and content of the contract.