NDLI: Who Are We Doing Global Software Engineering Research For?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Beecham, S. OLeary, P. Richardson, I. Baker, S. Noll, J.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Incaplex Ltd., Dublin, Ireland (Baker, S.) \|\| Lero - The Irish Software Eng. Res. Centre, Univ. of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland (Beecham, S.; OLeary, P.; Richardson, I.; Noll, J.)
Abstract	Twelve years ago a group of practitioners and researchers came together to try to solve problems relating specifically to Global Software Engineering (GSE) practice. This paper aims to assess whether the many hundreds of GSE research papers written over this period have had an impact on practice. We conducted semi-structured interviews with senior managers and project managers from ten companies, four of which are large multinationals (three in Fortune 100), four are medium sized enterprises, and two are small startups. GSE research is perceived as useful by industry with all participants stating that studying the subject would improve GSE performance, but all were unanimous in saying they did not read articles on GSE. Practitioners go to books, blogs, colleagues, forums, experience reports of 1-2 pages in length, or depend on their own experience to solve problems in GSE. Controversially, many didn't see GSE as separate from general project management. Practitioners don't want frameworks, they want patterns of context specific help. While dissemination techniques need to be improved, that is not sufficient. Experience-based advice is just as important.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc.
Starting Page	41
Ending Page	50
File Size	209185
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769550572
DOI	10.1109/ICGSE.2013.14
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-08-26
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Interviews Companies Software engineering Software Conferences Industries practitioner experience Global Software Development Global Software Engineering empirical research theory and practice research dissemination
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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