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Constant and unimpeded communication is an essential ingredient when it comes to successful software development projects. While manageable if the team is within shouting distance, it poses a considerable challenge in global software development (GSD) projects. In this chapter we explore how a lightweight knowledge transfer process can be established between distributed development teams. The leitmotif of the transfer process is a hands-on approach that values actual cooperation on tasks over lecturing the learning team. It introduces a set of practices that take tasks as a central means to both drive the knowledge transfer and to integrate it with the ongoing development process. The practical relevance of the described practices was successfully experienced in a case study.
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Koch, J., Sauer, J. (2010). A Task-Driven Approach on Agile Knowledge Transfer. In: Šmite, D., Moe, N., Ågerfalk, P. (eds) Agility Across Time and Space. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12442-6_21
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