Title :
Follow-the-Sun Strategy: A Process for Global Software Development
Author :
Kroll, Josiane ; Audy, Jorge Luis Nicolas
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Sch., Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
Abstract :
Follow-the-Sun (FTS) is a strategy in Global Software Development (GSD) focusing on software development twenty-four hours, seven days per week with physically distributed teams. Many companies have tried to implement FTS strategy, but have abandoned it after some point because of the difficulty to put it into practice. Thus, this article aims to presents a research plan for developing a software process inspired in the practices from agile methodologies, to support the adoption of the FTS strategy in GSD environments.
Keywords :
distributed processing; software prototyping; FTS strategy; GSD; agile methodologies; follow-the-sun strategy; global software development; physically distributed teams; software process; Companies; Context; Databases; Educational institutions; Software; Software engineering; Systematics; Follow-the-Sun; Global Software Development; Software Practices; Software Process;
Conference_Titel :
Global Software Engineering Workshops (ICGSEW), 2012 IEEE Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Porto Alegre
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2625-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4788-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICGSEW.2012.15
