Multi-dimensional assessment of risks in a distributed software development course

Author

Bosnic, Ivana ; Ciccozzit, Federico ; Cavrak, Igor ; Mirandola, Raffaela ; Orlic, Marin

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput., Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

fYear

2013

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

10

Abstract

The organizational shift from local to global settings in many software development initiatives has triggered the need for entailing it when educating the future software engineers. Several educational institutions have embraced this need and started collaborating for the provision of global software engineering courses. The rather complex nature of such courses results in a wider range of risks, in comparison to standard software engineering courses, that arise in different dimensions, ranging from course-to result-related, and for different reasons. In this work we provide an assessment of such a variety of risks as well as their causes, and we give a hint on how they may affect each other based on our 10-year-long experience with a tightly integrated GSD course.

Keywords

computer science education; cultural aspects; educational courses; educational institutions; organisational aspects; risk management; software engineering; GSD course; cultural differences; distributed software development course; educational institutions; global software engineering courses; multidimensional risk assessment; organizational shift; Collaboration; Context; Cultural differences; Educational institutions; Software; Software engineering; Education software engineering; cultural differences; risks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development (CTGDSD), 2013 3rd International Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTGDSD.2013.6635238

Filename

6635238