Follow-the-Sun Strategy: A Process for Global Software Development

Author

Kroll, Josiane ; Audy, Jorge Luis Nicolas

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Sch., Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

27-30 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

78

Abstract

Follow-the-Sun (FTS) is a strategy in Global Software Development (GSD) focusing on software development twenty-four hours, seven days per week with physically distributed teams. Many companies have tried to implement FTS strategy, but have abandoned it after some point because of the difficulty to put it into practice. Thus, this article aims to presents a research plan for developing a software process inspired in the practices from agile methodologies, to support the adoption of the FTS strategy in GSD environments.

Keywords

distributed processing; software prototyping; FTS strategy; GSD; agile methodologies; follow-the-sun strategy; global software development; physically distributed teams; software process; Companies; Context; Databases; Educational institutions; Software; Software engineering; Systematics; Follow-the-Sun; Global Software Development; Software Practices; Software Process;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW), 2012 IEEE Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Porto Alegre

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2625-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4788-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICGSEW.2012.15

Filename

6337325