Rapid application development
The interdisciplinary study of coordination
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
Global software teams: collaborating across borders and time zones
Global software teams: collaborating across borders and time zones
Extreme programming explained: embrace change
Extreme programming explained: embrace change
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
Agile software development ecosystems
Agile software development ecosystems
Enabling Software Shift Work with Groupware: A Case Study
HICSS '96 Proceedings of the 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Volume 3: Collaboration Systems and Technology
An Empirical Study of Speed and Communication in Globally Distributed Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Follow the Sun: Distributed Extreme Programming Development
ADC '05 Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference
Assigning tasks in a 24-h software development model
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Selected papers from the 11th Asia Pacific software engineering conference (APSEC 2004)
Following the sun: case studies in global software development
IBM Systems Journal
Conflict and Performance in Global Virtual Teams
Journal of Management Information Systems
A Contingency Approach to Software Project Coordination
Journal of Management Information Systems
Because Time Matters: Temporal Coordination in Global Virtual Project Teams
Journal of Management Information Systems
Team Boundary Issues Across Multiple Global Firms
Journal of Management Information Systems
Software Process: Improvement and Practice - Special Issue on Software Process Simulation
Do Gradations of Time Zone Separation Make a Difference in Performance? A First Laboratory Study
ICGSE '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Software Engineering
Approaches to Collaborative Software Development
CISIS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems
Agile Software Engineering
Team Knowledge and Coordination in Geographically Distributed Software Development
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Deriving mutual benefits from offshore outsourcing
Communications of the ACM - One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Information Systems Research
Modelling software development across time zones
Information and Software Technology
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
Timeboxing: a process model for iterative software development
Journal of Systems and Software
Hybrid Offshoring: Composite Personae and Evolving Collaboration Technologies
Information Resources Management Journal
Is time-zone proximity an advantage for software development? the case of the brazilian IT industry
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
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Follow the sun (FTS) has interesting appeal-hand off work at the end of every day from one site to the next, many time zones away, in order to speed up product development. Although the potential effect on "time to market" can be profound, at least conceptually, FTS has enjoyed few documented industry successes because it is acknowledged to be extremely difficult to implement. In order to address this "FTS challenge," we provide here a conceptual foundation and formal definition of FTS. We then analyze the conditions under which FTS can be successful in reducing duration in software development. We show that handoff efficiency is paramount to successful FTS practices and that duration can be reduced only when lower within-site coordination and improved personal productivity outweigh the corresponding increase in crosssite coordination. We also develop 12 research propositions based on fundamental issues surrounding FTS, such as calendar efficiency, development method, product architecture and handoff efficiency, within-site coordination, cross-site coordination, and personal productivity. We combine the conceptual analysis with a description of our FTS exploratory comparative field studies and draw out their key findings and learning. The main implication of this paper is that understanding calendar efficiency, handoff efficiency, within-site coordination, and cross-site coordination is necessary to evaluation-if FTS is to be successful in reducing software development duration.