Assigning tasks in a 24-h software development model

  • Authors:

  • Pankaj Jalote;Gourav Jain

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Selected papers from the 11th Asia Pacific software engineering conference (APSEC 2004)
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

With the advent of globalization and the Internet, the concept of global software development is gaining ground. The global development model opens up the possibility of 24-h software development by effectively utilizing the time zone differences. To harness the potential of the 24-h software development model for reducing the overall development time, a key issue is the allocation of project tasks to the resources in the distributed team. In this paper, we examine this issue of task allocation in order to minimize the completion time of a project. We discuss a model for distributed team across time zones and propose a task allocation algorithm for the same. We apply the approach on tasks of a few synthetic projects and two real projects and show that there is a potential to reduce the project duration as well as improve the resource utilization through 24-h development.