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Distributed development in an intra-national, intra-organisational context: an experience report

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Edvin Lindqvist,

Björn Lundell,

Brian LingsAuthors Info & Claims

GSD '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Global software development for the practitioner

Pages 80 - 86

https://doi.org/10.1145/1138506.1138525

Published: 23 May 2006 Publication History

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This paper reports from a study investigating distributed development in an intra-national and intra-organisational company context. The study gives an insight into issues related to, and strategies for successful distributed development seen in a project at Ericsson Microwave Systems. We conclude that regular, informal communication is the single most important factor for success in the project, with important roles in improving motivation and coordination. The leader's role in setting clear and transparent project priorities, and the use of iterative development methods with regular deliverables between sites, are identified as key elements of success. The context of the study is a relatively undemanding but common distributed development context, and the issues raised and strategies found to be effective are likely to be relevant to broader distributed development enterprises.

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Distributed development in an intra-national, intra-organisational context: an experience report
1. Software and its engineering
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    1. Collaboration in software development
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GSD '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Global software development for the practitioner

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