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We are
soliciting submissions for a Special Issue of the Journal of the
Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS) on the topic of “Global
Software Engineering" to be published in June of 2010. Global
Software Engineering (GSE) is pervasive in today's IT and
software industry. The software industry has been grappling with
distributed resources as a means to reduce cost and development
time, and also to expand to new markets. However, distance has a
significant impact on coordination and communication between
distributed team members. Thus, problems and challenges
intrinsic to software development processes become more critical
in GSE. The diversity of culture and the dispersion over time
and space require novel techniques, tools, and practices from
many disciplines to overcome challenges and to take the
advantages and opportunities that GSE offers.
The purpose of
this special issue is to provide a state-of-the-art view of
approaches and practices involved in effectively managing global
software development projects, with a special focus on how large
teams are dealing with distributed development. We encourage the
submission of manuscripts describing strategies, failure stories
and lessons learned as well as new tools, techniques or models
that can be used in different GSE contexts.
Topics of interest include but are
not limited to:
- Strategic issues in GSE: business models (offshoring,
nearshoring, outsourcing etc.), work distribution models;
- Managing GSE;
- Methods and tools for GSE;
- Communication, coordination and collaboration;
- Knowledge management in GSE;
- Getting started with GSE;
- Empirical studies of distributed teams and lessons learned;
- Software Process paradigms in GSE (agile, traditional, etc);
- Teaching GSE.
- Case studies of successful and unsuccessful GSE projects; |
