Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

9-2007

Abstract

Software firms are increasingly distributing their software development effort across multiple locations. In this paper we present the results of a two year field study that investigated the effects of dispersion on the productivity and quality of distributed software development. We first develop a model of distributed software development. We then use the model, along with our empirically observed data, to understand the consequences of dispersion on software project performance. Our analysis reveals that, even in high process maturity environments, a) dispersion significantly reduces development productivity and has effects on conformance quality, and b) these negative effects of dispersion can be significantly mitigated through deployment of structured software engineering processes.

Keywords

software development, distributed software development, productivity, dispersion

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

ESEC/FSE 2007: The 6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering: Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 3-7, 2007

First Page

125

Last Page

134

ISBN

9781595938114

Identifier

10.1145/1287624.1287643

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Comments

Awarded ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1287624.1287643

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