A case study: coordination practices in global software development

  • Authors:
  • Darja Šmite

  • Affiliations:
  • Riga Information Technology Institute, Riga, Latvia

  • Venue:
  • PROFES'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Global Software Development (GSD) is a new challenge for software developers to reach mobility in resources, obtain extra knowledge, speed time-to-market and increase operational efficiency. However, the new trend is followed by specific risks and needs a deeper analysis for successful risk overcoming. This paper gives an insight into a research on GSD project performance improvement in one of the biggest software development companies in Latvia. Project management and coordination in distributed environment is a great challenge, though being not very widely explored. In this paper the author emphasizes the necessity of research in this area and provides an overview of coordination practices used in the organization chosen for the case study.