The World Wide Web as Enabling Technology for CSCW: The Case of BSCW
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on groupware and the World Wide Web
Enterprise-Level Groupware Choices: Evaluating Lotus Notes and Intranet-Based Solutions
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on groupware and the World Wide Web
A strategic approach to connectivity in business alliances
SIGCPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
Collaborative tools and processes to support software engineering shift work
BT Technology Journal
WWW Based Collaboration with the BSCW System
SOFSEM '99 Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics on Theory and Practice of Informatics
The BSCW system: a WWW-based application to support cooperation of distributed groups
WET-ICE '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'96)
An empirical study of groupware support for distributed software architecture evaluation process
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Selected papers from the 11th Asia Pacific software engineering conference (APSEC 2004)
BSCW: cooperation support for distributed workgroups
EUROMICRO-PDP'02 Proceedings of the 10th Euromicro conference on Parallel, distributed and network-based processing
"Follow the Sun" Workflow in Global Software Development
Journal of Management Information Systems
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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This paper describes a software development trial which aimed to evaluate the use of a groupware support environment for widely geographically separated software development teams. A four person dislocated team working in (simulated) disjoint timezones was assigned a development task to carry out over a two week period. Due to the time and location displacement, the developers were denied almost all opportunities for synchronous communications and had to rely on support from a prototype software engineering support system developed in Lotus Notes for interactions and coordination. In addition, the tasks in the trial were allocated such that productivity gains could be experienced through positive exploitation of timezone differences, effectively giving around-the-clock working. The paper describes the design and organization of the trial, reports on the progress of the trial, and presents both quantitative and qualitative results regarding the use of the Notes prototype.