Abstract
Global Software Development (GSD) has become the norm in
product development. In GSD projects, controlling and
management activities are increasingly important as the
products are developed in dynamic environments where
requirements, priorities, participating sites,
development processes, tools and even partners are
continuously changing. Up-to-date information on project
status is critical to completing GSD projects
effectively. The objective of the research reported in
this paper was to make progress from fixed and inflexible
measurements towards dynamic, reliable and up-to-date
support for decision-making in GSD. Based on the study,
it is shown that dynamic measurements are enabled via the
use of automated and real-time indicators with
consolidated information via visualised dashboards. The
paper concludes that automatically produced real-time
indicators, whose data are gathered from various
databases and even from different stakeholders, are a
robust and feasible method to support decision-making in
GSD.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 105-116 |
| Journal | ACSIJ Advances in Computer Science |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- measurements
- metrics
- distributed development
- global software development
- project management