Designing Project Management for Global Software Development: Informality through Pragmatic Software Innovation

Gitte Tjørnehøj; Maria  B. Balogh; Cathrine  Iversen; Stine  Sørensen

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-43459-8_8

Designing Project Management for Global Software Development: Informality through Pragmatic Software Innovation

Gitte Tjørnehøj, Maria B. Balogh, Cathrine Iversen, Stine Sørensen

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Abstract

Software development in distributed teams remains challenging despite rapid technical improvement in tools for communication and collaboration across distance. The challenges stem from geographical, temporal and sociocultural distance and manifest themselves in a variety of difficulties in the development projects. This study has identified a range of difficulties described in the literature of global software development, lacking sufficient solutions. In particular, advice for project managers is lacking. Design science research has been applied to design a model to guide project managers of distributed software teams, based on a practice study and informed by well-known theories. Our work pinpoints the difficulties of handling the vital informal processes in distributed collaboration that are so vulnerable because the distances risk detaining their growth and increasing their decay rate. The research suggest to support and securing these informal processes through explicit and formal means and to ensure management’s continuous focus on this effort to succeed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Creating Value for All Through IT : IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2014
Editors	Peter Axel Nielsen, Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn
Publisher	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date	2014
Pages	113-132
ISBN (Print)	978-3-662-43458-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43459-8_8
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT: TDIT - Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark Duration: 2 Jun 2014 → 4 Jun 2014

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Conference	IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT
Location	Aalborg
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aalborg
Period	02/06/2014 → 04/06/2014

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Tjørnehøj, G., B. Balogh, M., Iversen, C., & Sørensen, S. (2014). Designing Project Management for Global Software Development: Informality through Pragmatic Software Innovation. In P. A. Nielsen, & B. Bergvall-Kåreborn (Eds.), Creating Value for All Through IT: IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2014 (pp. 113-132). Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43459-8_8

Tjørnehøj, Gitte ; B. Balogh, Maria ; Iversen, Cathrine et al. / Designing Project Management for Global Software Development : Informality through Pragmatic Software Innovation. Creating Value for All Through IT: IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2014. editor / Peter Axel Nielsen ; Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn. Springer Publishing Company, 2014. pp. 113-132

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Tjørnehøj, G, B. Balogh, M, Iversen, C & Sørensen, S 2014, Designing Project Management for Global Software Development: Informality through Pragmatic Software Innovation. in PA Nielsen & B Bergvall-Kåreborn (eds), Creating Value for All Through IT: IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2014. Springer Publishing Company, pp. 113-132, IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, Aalborg, Denmark, 02/06/2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43459-8_8

Designing Project Management for Global Software Development: Informality through Pragmatic Software Innovation. / Tjørnehøj, Gitte; B. Balogh, Maria ; Iversen, Cathrine et al.
Creating Value for All Through IT: IFIP WG 8.6 International Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2014. ed. / Peter Axel Nielsen; Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn. Springer Publishing Company, 2014. p. 113-132.

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