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Internationally Distributed Software Development: On the Impact of Distance Based on a Case Study

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2016)

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Distribution of software development is increasingly global and crosses the geographical and cultural borders. As software development is creative teamwork, the distribution is not about mechanical division of work. The poster presents on on-going study on internationally distributed software development. Based on a literature and experiences from a case company, investigates the motivations, models of distribution and the most problematic areas.

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The research has been supported by Tekes-funded Digile project Need for Speed.Footnote 1

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    Harri Sten, Hannu Jaakkola & Kari Systä

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  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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  3. and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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  4. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

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  5. Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Japan

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    Tommi Mikkonen

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Sten, H., Jaakkola, H., Systä, K. (2016). Internationally Distributed Software Development: On the Impact of Distance Based on a Case Study. In: Abrahamsson, P., Jedlitschka, A., Nguyen Duc, A., Felderer, M., Amasaki, S., Mikkonen, T. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10027. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_47

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