DocumentCode :
1915130
Title :
FTSProc: A Process to Alleviate the Challenges of Projects that Use the Follow-the-Sun Strategy
Author :
Hess, Estevão Ricardo ; Audy, Jorge Luis Nicolas
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Sch., PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
fYear :
2012
fDate :
27-30 Aug. 2012
Firstpage :
56
Lastpage :
64
Abstract :
Searching for competitive advantages as low coast and productivity gains, organizations choose to distribute their software development to other countries with more affordable production costs. Increasingly, projects are being developed in geographically distributed environments, featuring the distributed software development. However, the challenges inherent in this software development environment are significant. Among these challenges is the time zone difference, which can also be tackled as an advantage, through the use of the follow-the-sun development. However, the follow-the-sun strategy presents some challenges, mainly alongside the handoffs. Therefore, this experimental research focuses to present a development process to alleviate the challenges found in project that uses this strategy, focusing in the development phase from the SDLC. Yet, it performs an experiment to evaluate the created process´ efficiency. In this experimental process it was found evidences the created process actually alleviate the challenges found in the follow-the-sun strategy.
Keywords :
distributed processing; project management; software engineering; FTSProc; SDLC; distributed software development; follow-the-sun strategy; geographically distributed environments; production cost; productivity gains; software development environment; software project development; time zone difference; Computer science; Educational institutions; Finishing; Industries; Planning; Software; Software engineering; Development Process; Follow-the-Sun; Global Software Development;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Global Software Engineering (ICGSE), 2012 IEEE Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Porto Alegre
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2357-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4787-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICGSE.2012.27
Filename :
6337342
Link To Document :
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