ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Successful software process improvement
Successful software process improvement
Introduction to the personal software process
Introduction to the personal software process
Software project survival guide
Software project survival guide
Software project management: a unified framework
Software project management: a unified framework
Peopleware (2nd ed.): productive projects and teams
Peopleware (2nd ed.): productive projects and teams
Parallel changes in large scale software development: an observational case study
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Daily build and feature development in large distributed projects
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach
Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach
Software Quality: Analysis and Guidelines for Success
Software Quality: Analysis and Guidelines for Success
Measuring the Impacts Individual Process Maturity Attributes Have on Software Products
METRICS '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Software Metrics
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Increasingly software projects are handled in a global and distributed project set-up. Global software development however also challenges traditional techniques of software engineering, such as peer reviews or design meetings. Especially validation activities during development, such as inspections need to be adjusted to achieve results, which are both efficient and effective. Effective teamwork and coaching of engineers highly contribute towards successful projects. We will in this article evaluate experiences made in the last 3 years with validation activities in a global setting within Alcatel's Switching and Routing business. We will investigate 3 hypotheses related to effects of collocated inspections, intensive coaching, and feature-oriented development teams on globally distributed projects. As all these activities mean initial investment compared to a standard process with scattered activities, the major validation criteria for the 3 hypotheses is cost reduction due to earlier defect detection and less defects introduced. The data is taken from a sample of over 60 international projects of various sizes from which we collected all type of product and process metrics in the past 4 years.