Collaboration Spaces for Virtual Software Teams

Author

Dullemond, Kevin ; van Gameren, Ben ; Van Solingen, Rini

Volume

31

Issue

6

fYear

2014

fDate

Nov.-Dec. 2014

Firstpage

47

Lastpage

53

Abstract

Software engineering is a field in which distributed development through virtual teams is a fact of life. The authors claim that environments for supporting virtual software teams should place collaboration in the forefront. Here, they present a set of eight core requirements for support environments for virtual software teams. These requirements have been derived from, and validated in, industrial settings, and address how to provide virtual software teams with a sufficient level of awareness for their work activities.

Keywords

groupware; programming environments; software development management; team working; collaboration spaces; distributed development; software engineering; virtual software teams; Collaboration; Computer languages; Programming; Research and development; Software engineering; Teamwork; Virtual groups; attention and interruption; awareness; collaboration support environments; computer-supported cooperative work; global software engineering; interrupts; mood indicators; software engineering; software environments; virtual software teams; virtual teams;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2014.105

Filename

6879053