Title :
Experience Developing Software Using a Globally Distributed Workforce
Author :
Avritzer, Alberto ; Ostrand, Thomas ; Weyuker, Elaine J.
Author_Institution :
Siemens Corporate Res., Princeton, NJ
Abstract :
Industrial experience assessing the stability of a large mission-critical software project is reported. We observed that the project incurred significant additional delays in resolving the types of problems usually uncovered when assessing mission-critical software stability. We present plausible hypotheses about the possible causes of these additional delays
Keywords :
project management; software development management; globally distributed workforce; mission-critical software stability; software development; Added delay; Availability; Costs; Europe; Mission critical systems; North America; Programming; Software systems; Stability; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Global Software Engineering, 2006. ICGSE '06. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Florianopolis
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2663-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICGSE.2006.261231
