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Is time-zone proximity an advantage for software development? the case of the brazilian IT industry

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Rafael Prikladnicki,

Erran CarmelAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '13: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering

Pages 973 - 981

Published: 18 May 2013 Publication History

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Brazil has been emerging as a destination for IT software and services. The country already had a strong domestic base of IT clients to global companies. One of the competitive factors is time zone location. Brazil has positioned itself as easy for collaboration because of time zone overlap with its primary partners in North America and Europe. In this paper we examine whether time zone proximity is an advantage for software development by conducting a country-level field study of the Brazilian IT industry using a cross section of firms. The results provide some support for the claims of proximity benefits. The Brazil-North dyads use moderate timeshifting that is perceived as comfortable for both sides. The voice coordination that the time overlap permits helps address coordination challenges and foster relationships. One company, in particular, practiced such intense time zone aligned collaboration using agile methods that we labeled this Real-time Simulated Co-location

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3196369.3196377
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Botto-Tobar MTorres WLozano Avan den Brand MVasilescu BSerebrenik APaasivaara MŠmite DEvaristo R(2018)Is stack overflow in portuguese attractive for brazilian users?Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Global Software Engineering10.1145/3196369.3196377(21-29)Online publication date: 27-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3196369.3196377
Kroll JRichardson IPrikladnicki RAudy J(2018)Empirical evidence in follow the Sun software developmentInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2017.08.01193:C(30-44)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2017.08.011
Al-Ani BMarczak SRedmiles DPrikladnicki R(2014)Facilitating contagion trust through tools in Global Systems Engineering teamsInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2013.11.00156:3(309-320)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2013.11.001

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