Title :
Exploring the Role of Social Software in Global Software Development Projects
Author :
Giuffrida, Rosalba ; Dittrich, Yvonne
Author_Institution :
Software Dev. Group, IT Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Abstract :
We present a PhD project that investigates the use of Social Software (SoSo) in Global Software Development (GSD) teams. Since SoSo in unstructured and informal in its own nature, we explore how informal communication, which is challenging in GSD, is supported by SoSo in distributed teams and how SoSo complements formal tools and documentation.
Keywords :
groupware; project management; social sciences; software engineering; GSD; PhD project; distributed teams; formal tools; global software development team; informal communication; social software; Collaboration; Companies; Conferences; Instant messaging; Programming; Software; Software engineering; Social software; action research; ethnography; informal communication; knowledge management.; team building;
Conference_Titel :
Global Software Engineering Workshop (ICGSEW), 2011 Sixth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Helsinki
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1839-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4558-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICGSE-W.2011.22
