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Communication in Agile Global Software Development: An Exploratory Study

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Agile Global Software Development is gaining relevance and importance. While communication is key for exchanging information between team members, multi-site software development introduces additional obstacles and delays. This paper reports an exploratory study on the impact of infrastructure on communication. Although this topic has been a subject of interest many issues remain unaddressed. In this paper we address both team member communication and the combination of project and product development. One of the main conclusions is that communication can be improved if tool infrastructure combine different levels of information (i.e. team members, project status and product status). The use of simple tools, such as Vsee in SmartBoards is useful for reducing distance between sites. Dependency on bandwidth is not a new issue but is still relevant.

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  • Global Distributed Software Development
  • Agile
  • Exploratory research
  • Tools
  • Technologies
  • Infrastructure

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  1. E.T.S.I Sistemas Informáticos, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), CITSEM, Madrid, Spain

    Juan Garbajosa & Agustin Yagüe

  2. Indra Software Labs, Madrid, Spain

    Eloy Gonzalez

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  1. TU Graz, Rechbauerstraße 12, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Robert Meersman

  2. CRAN, University of Lorraine, Campus Sciences, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoevre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. Department of Software Engineering, Atilim Univeristy, Kızılcaşar Mh Mh, 06830, Ankara, Turkey

    Alok Mishra

  4. Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100, Murcia, Spain

    Rafael Valencia-García

  5. Dep. of Informatics Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    António Lucas Soares

  6. SIGMA / LIG, Joseph Fourier University, 220 Rue de la Chimie, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

    Ioana Ciuciu

  7. Institute for Research on Population and Social, National Research Council, Policies, Via Palestro 32, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Fernando Ferri

  8. Dep. Business Informatics, Communications Engineering, Johannes Kepler University, Freistaedterstrasse 315, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Georg Weichhart

  9. STINA Business Solutions GmbH, Schottenfeldgasse 63/2, 1070, Wien, Austria

    Thomas Moser

  10. SAP Research, 805 avenue du Dr Donat, 06259, Sophia-Antipolis, Mougins, France

    Michele Bezzi

  11. Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PQ806, Mong Man Wai Building, Hong Kong,, China

    Henry Chan

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Garbajosa, J., Yagüe, A., Gonzalez, E. (2014). Communication in Agile Global Software Development: An Exploratory Study. In: , et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Workshops. OTM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8842. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_41

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